Comment by tedggh

I have always been pro fundamentals. It caused me trouble early in my career with bosses that didn’t understand why I would spend time trying to understand how something worked at a low level if I was a high level user. But then knowing the fundamentals gave me an edge as a designer and developer by understanding capabilities and limitations of the tools I was using. For example understanding how indexes work internally in a relational database. So I see the value in this type of work, not to land a job as a LLM researcher, but as an informed user of the tool.