Well if he's not AI he needs to rewrite his blurb, because it sounds awful.
It's so awful it might not be written by AI, as AI normally writes stuff that's sterile and soulless but precise, whereas his description is just all over the place.
You're really not missing anything I'm afraid; if you're a shit coder it'll seem like voodoo magic, if you're a good coder it's good in certain circumstances (parsing logs, interpreting debug messages, that sort of thing) but won't replace you.
Faster? Maybe. Better? Ha. If you honestly think the code quality and perf of AI's code is better than a half-decent human engineer then you're in the wrong line of work. Or you're just an AI bot...yep, that one.
It's just that when I was exploring different things, I really liked front-end and I put more time on that. Recently I used google AI studio, and it designed the thing very well, and I sucked at designing and slow in developing. In other areas, it helped me a lot, for example Laravel docs looked hard to learn for me and I just used php or node js or Django or whatever to avoid Laravel instead, but then I just wanted to prototype some idea, and I used AI, and first I was blindly copy pasting, then I started learning and that was good. But it doesn't happen everywhere. Of course I'm not saying "AI is gonna take programmers place" or something like that.
They've been trained on thousands of productivity/influencer/passive-income grift blogs that surfaced in the post '4 Hour Work Week' era, when hustle culture was born.
I consumed A LOT of those blogs back then, and let me tell you they're clearly the basis that AI has learnt from, if you dig some up and read them it's very obvious.
I appreciate your honesty! When I read those kind of things back in the days before AI, I always believed the similarity in tone meant they must have all been using some early proto-AI type system to draft their copy - either that or they were all dutifully following some kind of "writing guide" - surely sold by another course!
I don't specifically recall the "not X, it's Y". But I do recall that kind of "preacher's rhetorical" tone.
Kind of funny in a absurd Terry Pratchett/Douglas Adams/Jean-Pierre Jeunet "fully realized quriky world" kind of way. It turned out that the thing which ended up being most responsible for giving birth to Artificial Intelligence on Earth, was none other than the vast collected writings of online coaching course content creators in the early 21st century...
You've not been a member here that long, so showing off stuff you've built will appear disingenuous and like you're just here to self-promote and grift. HN isn't really about that.
Spend a couple of years engaging with the site, adding to the discourse, and then look into showcasing your own stuff after that.
It's a good job I wasn't being interviewed for this job, as I have not one iota of a smidge of a clue what PEFT and LORA are. And I have no idea what varieties of prompting technique there are.
PEFT is more niche as it's a specific library (https://github.com/huggingface/peft) that creates LoRAs, but for a machine learning engineer working with LLM models outside of just prompting an API, it's within scope to know why/how a LoRA should be used.
Not bothering with any kind of git setup any more, I've reverted back to some good old fashioned folder snapshot backups every time I finish a new version of what I'm working on.
It's so awful it might not be written by AI, as AI normally writes stuff that's sterile and soulless but precise, whereas his description is just all over the place.