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As a SWE with 10y experience, how long does it take to learn to build AI models

1•ciwolex•1h ago

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minimaxir•1h ago
Using existing tools such as Hugging Face transformers to build or finetune a toy model on your own data, not long.

Doing things more complex than that is where questions get difficult.

ciwolex•1h ago
Makes sense, is it worth learning the deep workings? Do you think there are benefits?

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