2024 AI Year in Review
Highlights
- ▸2024 was the 'moved from demo to production' year — the first wave of AI Engineer hiring and shipped customer-facing AI features
- ▸Small-model revolution started here — Llama 3, Phi, Gemma compressing frontier-quality to 7B-8B parameters at a fraction of cost
- ▸Community consensus shifted: 'just use GPT-4' stopped being the default; model choice became a real engineering decision, setting up 2025's agentic pivot
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