There's definitely a rush of people trying to upskill/reskill into this technology space despite having no formal training or background beyond basic dev skills. There's other people (such as myself) that came from the big data/NLP space (ads & search) that are trying to add AI to our extensive skillsets but aren't necessarily deep-math experts.
Unfortunately there's not a lot of room at the top and the vast majority of AI implementations at smaller companies are just OpenAI API wrappers. Essentially there's very little lived experience since it's expensive to experiment at home and smaller companies just aren't going to invest in self-hosted models that are expensive to run and quickly fall behind state of the art.
There's definitely a rush of people trying to upskill/reskill into this technology space despite having no formal training or background beyond basic dev skills. There's other people (such as myself) that came from the big data/NLP space (ads & search) that are trying to add AI to our extensive skillsets but aren't necessarily deep-math experts.
Unfortunately there's not a lot of room at the top and the vast majority of AI implementations at smaller companies are just OpenAI API wrappers. Essentially there's very little lived experience since it's expensive to experiment at home and smaller companies just aren't going to invest in self-hosted models that are expensive to run and quickly fall behind state of the art.