If your mental model of transformers starts and ends with chatbots, you're missing the concept entirely. What the attention mechanism actually is, why it matters far beyond text generation, and why the infrastructure challenges it creates are distributed systems problems you already know how to solve.
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A lot of talk has surfaced lately about work culture in light of the Great Resignation. Attrition has been a serious problem, particularly in the technology sector since 2022. Business owners are struggling to attract talent, and are grasping at straws to attract software engineering talent. It seems gone are the days where a ping-pong table and cold-brew coffee taps in the office drew the industry's best employees.