I work in a quant fund. Can I just say that the longer I spend in the industry, the more I find that ML/AI techniques are useless (in general). It almost seems

I work in a quant fund. Can I just say that the longer I spend in the industry, the more I find that ML/AI techniques are useless (in general). It almost seems like collective self-delusion in building ever more complex systems that attempt to use the latest fad in the field without first appreciating that your dataset is almost always just noise... Me, I just do my boss's bidding like a good little solider and code up whatever the fund wants. My personal portfolio is a vanilla asset allocation model. Guess which one has done better for the past 2 years?