AI bubble burst favors pure ML backgrounds: end-to-end skills now beat niche expertise
kmeanskaran · x · 2026-11-03
The author argues the AI bubble burst and slowdown actually help people from pure ML backgrounds. Building AI agents and training LLMs are no longer special skills anyone can't pick up; what the industry still demands is people who can own complete end-to-end pipelines in a specific domain — the role now called FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer).
Advice: stick to the basics, because self-attention, matrix multiplication, gradient boosting, and residual layers stay constant across every technological evolution.
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