My wife is a researcher at Stanford doing some ML stuff and the constant painpoint isn't the researching of novel models or maths or whatever, it's the IT hell

My wife is a researcher at Stanford doing some ML stuff and the constant painpoint isn't the researching of novel models or maths or whatever, it's the IT hell of managing a pipeline and data acquisition. I've helped her introduce things like Docker to the lab which seems to have helped but still - software engineering is a totally different skill that really hinders ML work.