[slavapestov]

If you can rebrand yourself as an "expert" in some shiny new thing by spending a few weeks at a boot camp, there probably isn't much there and you will be competing for the same jobs against countless others who did the same.

I managed to completely ignore the cool new thing for the last 20 years and instead slowly built up knowledge in those problem domains that actually interest me, and it's worked out alright.

[JohnFen]

Agreed. Of the many things I've learned over the years, two related ones are:

if the work you're doing is work that you're genuinely interested in, you have a huge immediate advantage, and

Running into where crowd is running out, and running out of where the crowd is running in usually (but not always) gives you a large advantage.

[realitythreek]

Yeah what most companies are even thinking about right now is prompt engineering which doesn’t require an advanced degree.

Actually developing models is a much smaller field (in terms of jobs) and the overlap with software engineering is small. I’m sure you can make a lot of money in it, but you’re better off coming at it from data science.

[routerl]

You assume that "branding yourself as an expert" is the same as "becoming an expert".

[JohnFen]

My read of his comment is the opposite of that.