We review recent progress in understanding the nature of yielding in amorphous materials. Within an athermal elastoplastic model in quasistatic shear, we find that yielding is brittle in the limit of large system size, whatever the level of annealing/ageing of the sample prior to shear. For small systems, in contrast, we find a crossover from apparently ductile to brittle yielding behaviour with increasing degree of sample annealing prior to shear. Time permitting, we will also make some remarks about the difference between the nature of ductile/brittle yielding in thermal vs athermal materials.