u/UselesTaste

I'm done

I started my journey in 2018 when yolo v3 came out. I saw in ted talk youtube when I was in high school. It was so cool and exciting at the time. I remember one of my high school teacher slapped DL book out of my hand and calling me idiot for learning DL instead of high school subjects. Good times.

2020 I dropped out from college I wanted to use my skills for good and wanted my own non-profit startup for developing country. Ended up working at other startup teaching and researching Computer Vision for 2 years and at that time 2021-ish was I think most exciting time for research. I decided to give it a chance at academic research a chance and got in to different college again. And in 2022 GPT and stuff was just flooded but I really did not think much. I wrote some paper with my own interest and sometimes got some good results. While I was researching my paper college was like season 2 of high school. I always seems to find a to start a fight with professors and got very low GPA(But GPA is my fault).

In 2026 Jan, I've decided to finally start my own start up with small amount of money I've collected around 30k. Got the office started working on research with my friends and with other researchers remotely. It's was fun researching but I was idiot for not thinking about making profit with my "company".

but, now every things is LLM and agentic AI. Big scale servers and expensive GPUs blocking from entering anything. I've tried to stay positive bought some used hardware, Built my servers. few 3090, 5090, A6000 ... Now in Jun It's not even funny for startup to get hands on GPUs. But only demand is just Agentic AI.

I want to believe that I'm idiot again for seeing things in negative way. But now out side of large "AI company" researching other than LLMs are luxury. I don't know but Nvidia dominating and jacking up prices on hardware for way out of my hands and AI is now tool for political gains. I do not want to contribute to this kind of scene where everything seems dystopia.

Now I'm starting to think I should just give up everything and start new one. A lot of my colleagues that moved to big tech company is thinking the same way. Also one of my good friend died from overworking last year. It's not fun anymore. Dead end for me at least.

What I'm trying to say is that AI was a tool for exciting projects and research but now it seems like political, dystopia future and I'm not even qualified to contribute to AI but not even going to try. Thanks Nvidia.