[webspaceadam]

This is correct. But i guess the article argues about not already solved problems. NLP is in the most cases so powerful and easy to implement, that i would argue it can be viewed as a more complex version of a heuristic. My thought comes from the idea, that you need to act up on the data NLP-Algorithms bring to you.

[lysecret]

Yea I get that but I have experience people working with all sorts of insanely complicated heuristic to get something like a NER system running when they could have much more easily used a Hugging face model. But I totally agree that the article holds true if you have to train your own model.