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Is this supposed to be an ironic take on the "plug-and-play HN comment blaming cost cutting management for everything"?

Because it's not this.

Deep learning researchers are specialists in their specific technologies. For example recent advances in transformers not withstanding, it takes quite a long time for say someone who knows how to build deep learning models on images using CNNs to come up to speed on how build good natural language processing models.