> The tribal thesis in the AI world seems to be that AI workers don't need subject matter expertise Not throwing any stones here, because I've been guilty of t

> The tribal thesis in the AI world seems to be that AI workers don't need subject matter expertise Not throwing any stones here, because I've been guilty of the same sort of arrogance in other contexts. But I think the same thing happened a ton during Bubble 1.0 and the software-is-eating-the-world thing. And it's hardly limited to tech: https://xkcd.com/793/ https://xkcd.com/793/ For me, at least, where this came from was ignorance and naivete. Three things cured me. One was getting deeper mastery of particular things, and experiencing a fair bit of frustration when dealing with people who didn't understand those things or respect my expertise. The second was truly recognizing there were plenty of equally smart people who'd spent just as long on other things. And the third was working in close, cross-functional team contexts with those people, where mutual listening and respect were vital to the team doing our best work. So here's hoping that the AI bigwigs learn that one way or another.