I don’t know if Joe Biden is dead or alive right now, but I have fond memories of his 2019 career advice to coal miners:
Suppose that a high school student took Joe Biden’s advice in 2019 but skipped the coal mining phase. He/she/ze/they will graduate from college in 3 months with a CS degree. We randomly selected this person so he/she/ze/they will have median skills as an entry-level computer programmer (“coder”).
Let’s hear from an LLM expert to get some insight into what the demand for a median-skilled programmer is likely to be…
Now it’s Learn to Singular Value Decomposition and Eigen vectors.
JT: If you can shovel coal into a furnace you can quickly become an expert on Singular Value Decomposition and Eigen vectors.