[fennecbutt]

I don't think it's as complicated as it might seem, if you break it down.

I think the real blocker is time; modern software devs are expected to be across the whole stack. You can't have one person write your backend, frontend, infra, db admin, build ml architecture, train model, etc. It's just too much.

It's just specialising really, wide and shallow vs narrow but deep domains. Forefront of ML stuff requires researchers specialised in that domain, same as any I guess.