Comment by polnoner

It seems obvious to me that no matter what your age right now, you should want to be as broadly educated and intellectually curious as possible.

You should want to train a LLM from scratch as an intellectual curiosity itch that needs to be scratched.

The idea of learning one hot skill that has a pot of gold waiting at the end of it was a brief moment in time that came and went.

When I was 17, we would have said obviously support vector machines are the future. Neural networks overfit and don't work.