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Opinion: New Grad AI Engineers Need Cluster-Scale Experience, Not Just Fine-Tuning
May 31, 2026
A practitioner argues that new grad AI engineers need hands-on experience with vLLM internals, tensor parallelism, Triton kernel writing, cluster orchestration, and pretraining at 800B+ scale to remain competitive, as paper reproduction is now table stakes. The post emphasizes hardware supply chain knowledge and serving at scale as differentiators.