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I am curious what your take is on things like this article:

https://managingml.substack.com/p/the-myth-that-machine-lear...

It has been my experience too. Basically, ML / DS engineers are thrown under the bus for being poor general software engineers, but in practice it’s totally the opposite.

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The problem is that ML engineers are not the people who wrote GP's garbage code. Data scientists wrote it, and I know at least a few of my very intelligent, high-functioning data scientist colleagues who are alarmingly, astoundingly bad programmers.

For me it's just the one experience since I haven't had any other interactions with an ML / DS person since.

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