To be fair, probably everyone who "touches these things" had extensive graduate work on the topic, or put in a lot of long years toiling away at far less exciti

To be fair, probably everyone who "touches these things" had extensive graduate work on the topic, or put in a lot of long years toiling away at far less exciting and remunerative grunt work. They weren't just super bright CS undergrads who got entry level jobs you couldn't.