I am also an 80's computer kid, still coding.
Recently I assessed an AI startup, with a team of young ML PhD's, on behalf of a potential investor.
While apparently brilliant in science, that team was surprisingly inexperienced on software development, e.g. seriously struggling on web UI's.
So perhaps you should look into job opportunities in ML teams, helping them to bridge their ML magic with the outside world?
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I am also an 80's computer kid, still coding. Recently I assessed an AI startup, with a team of young ML PhD's, on behalf of a potential investor. While apparently brilliant in science, that team was surprisingly inexperienced on software development, e.g. seriously struggling on web UI's. So perhaps you should look into job opportunities in ML teams, helping them to bridge their ML magic with the outside world?