> A PhD in ML is worth less to me than day to day operational product engineering experience utilizing the fast changing ML tooling landscape

This is how you get a four-week transition from "I can fix twitter search in an internship!" to "twitter search is unfixable." Ideally, a PhD teaches you to bust your behind doing a deep dive on a seemingly unsolvable problem for three-five years.

If only we could recalibrate ourselves to stop the search for easy money and remind ourselves that some problems are just genuinely hard.