Sorry it was a bit half joking. I am an indie game dev but at the same time I also had prior experience doing ML engineering. FWIW some types of game devs are

Sorry it was a bit half joking. I am an indie game dev but at the same time I also had prior experience doing ML engineering. FWIW some types of game devs are actually versatile people for ML engineering. They can write low level code; they can manipulate bitmaps; they have keen-enough eyes to tell you something is wrong with your image dataset. I don't think game devs are a bad choice.