Three weeks into a new ML platform job, I asked a coworker why the 'getting started' doc had a section called 'If conda breaks, try the alternative.' He laughed in a way that told me it wasn't a joke. It stopped being just a packaging tool the day our onboarding doc got shorter instead of longer.
It stopped being just a packaging tool the day our onboarding doc got shorter instead of longer.
Every new hire spent their first two days fighting Python versions, CUDA driver mismatches, and a vector database that someone had installed locally in 2022 and nobody dared touch.
Three weeks into a new ML platform job, I asked a coworker why the 'getting started' doc had a section called 'If conda breaks, try the alternative.' He laughed in a way that told me it wasn't a joke.
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It stopped being just a packaging tool the day our onboarding doc got shorter instead of longer. Three weeks into a new ML platform job, I asked a coworker why the 'getting started' doc had a section called 'If conda breaks, try the alternative.' He laughed in a way that told me it wasn't a joke. Every new hire spent their first two days fighting Python versions, CUDA driver mismatches, and a vector database that someone had installed locally in 2022 and nobody dared touch.
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