Creating a good machine learning model is really sexy. That's what's different and where everyone focuses all of their attention.
But machine learning is much more than that.
A thread with a few thoughts about the real job.
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Machine learning engineers spend a lot of time designing and training new models, but this is just a small fraction of their job.
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In reality, dealing with data and operationalizing models is much more time-consuming and sometimes even harder and more involved than creating the models in the first place.