Lianna (on Mastodon)<p>I entered the <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/ComputationalLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComputationalLinguistics</span></a> field in 2018 by enrolling for a Bachelor's degree.</p><p>Since then, a lot has changed. Almost all the things we learned about, programmed in practice and did research on are now nearly irrelevant in our day-to-day.</p><p>Everything is <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> now. Every paper, every course, every student project.</p><p>And the newly enrolled students changed, too. They're no longer language nerds, they're <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> bros.</p><p>I miss <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/CompLing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CompLing</span></a> before ChatGPT.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>llm</span></a></p>