[jayd16]

Lots of naive advice in here. A lot of work goes into a product besides LOC in source control. PMs and management interface with other teams. Do YOU want to be in meetings with sales and marketing going over the product for the millionth time? The business doesn't want to pay engineer hours for that either. There's nothing worse than slick B2B software with no human intervention. Walk outside the happy path and you're SOL.

[behaveEc0n00]

If all you’re going to do is walk the happy path the marketing necessity makes sense; you’re a bit player in a crowded cottage industry. Your startup probably doesn’t need to exist as 9 others are doing similar enough data crunching.

Real talk; open source ML is on the way that will end digital content creation jobs. Intelligent deployment of infra is here and will get better; bye devops/secops.

If you’re suckling at the teet of the past you’re missing out on a lot of cool projects. Stable diffusion is just the start of smart open source software. I’d reconsider your path altogether if you’re envisioning a long career in software and avoiding cross training.