Junior ML engineers all want architecture work, not the dirty eval and dataset work that matters
andreisavu · x · 2026-11-16
cosminnegruseri observes a mirrored pattern: every junior ML engineer wants to work on model architecture instead of dirty eval or dataset work, and every junior backend engineer wants to build a new framework from scratch rather than incrementally add functionality. His advice: get it out of your system, and then it's easy to focus on impactful work.
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