Comment by weatherlite
12 hours ago
A lot of startup companies are not training frontier models but help solve and optimize pain points of LLMs: cyber security, token usage, harnesses etc. These jobs don't require a PHD in machine learning but it does help if you understand LLMs at a deeper level.
A lot of startups succeed by lying to themselves about the quality of their solutions and focusing on selling a marketing story.
True, I'm tempted to put Antrhopic under the same category of lying startups so it enforces my point that understanding LLMs deeply could be useful