There's no way even the smartest hard working expert engineer will be competent in AI in 6 months. I've been in industry and now I do research at a top univers

There's no way even the smartest hard working expert engineer will be competent in AI in 6 months. I've been in industry and now I do research at a top university. I hand pick the best people from all over the world to be part of my group. They need years under expert guidance, with a lot of reading that's largely unproductive, while being surrounded by others doing the same, in order to become competent. Writing code is easy. You can learn to use any API in a weekend. That's not what is hard. What's hard is, what do you do when things don't work. Fine, you tried the top 5 models. They're all ok, but your business requirements need much higher reliability. What do you do now? This isn't research. But you need a huge amount of experience to understand what you can and cannot do, how to define a problem in a way that is tractable, what problems to avoid and how to avoid them, what approaches cannot possibly work, how to tweak and endless list of parameters, how to know if your model could work if you spent another 100k of compute on it or 100k of data collection, etc. This is like saying you can learn to give people medical advice in 6 months. Sure, when things are going well, you could handle many patients with a Google search. But the problem is what happens when things go badly.