This feel like a slow end of an era. I work in a mixed ML/dev team, on the dev side (distributed systems) and, looking at real-world ML work (and having tried i

This feel like a slow end of an era. I work in a mixed ML/dev team, on the dev side (distributed systems) and, looking at real-world ML work (and having tried it a bit at home), I really don't want to do ML unless that becomes the only choice... I hope I can get standard dev gigs till I can retire ;) There was a good quote either from Joel or someone like that (or someone he was interviewing on a podcast), along the lines of "I went into software because I like tinkering with intricate clockwork; not because I like training a puppy to not pee on the carpet". On top of that, you tend to not even spend most of the time on the puppy, most of the time is spent collecting and organizing carpet samples.