Standard ML applications will be commoditized in the same way that creating a website has been commoditized. But for anything that isn't standard, and that's th

Standard ML applications will be commoditized in the same way that creating a website has been commoditized. But for anything that isn't standard, and that's the vast majority of what businesses need, ML isn't going to become part of SWE's standard toolkit anytime soon. ML is kind of like tennis in the sense that you look at Nadal and Federer and all the greats and you can say, "man, I could do that," but you can't, not even close in this life and the next after this one. In fact, most SWEs who have developed some sort of "intuition" about ML have been quite dangerous, as they tend to be condescending to the real experts, have built things that make no sense at all or fall apart when 1 data point our of 100,000 changes, and when presented with the fact that they have no clue about ML, resort to the "the AI is all hype anyway" comeback. And vice versa (ML practitioners like me who think they can do SWE with one eye closed, "what's the big deal?") is also true.