>you can reasonably work under PhD level people and write code to test, scale, and deploy their ideas. Which phd, though? All PhDs are not equal (see politics

>you can reasonably work under PhD level people and write code to test, scale, and deploy their ideas. Which phd, though? All PhDs are not equal (see politics vs computer vision). Also, PhDs are hardly the holy grail of demonstrating capability, accuracy or intellect, especially given the reproducibility crisis, phds as a measure of any of those things should be used carefully.