Well, I think this overestimates people outside the HN echochamber again. Most senior ML people we see in big corps have no clue what they are doing: they just

Well, I think this overestimates people outside the HN echochamber again. Most senior ML people we see in big corps have no clue what they are doing: they just fiddle with knobs until it works. They would not be able to explain anything: copy code/model, change parameters and train until convergence, test for overfitting. When automl was coming a bit I hoped they would be fired (as I do not think they are doing useful work) but nope: they have trouble hiring more of them.