[rg111]

If your job is only calling the APIs' .fit() method, then that is not a job at all.

If something is already done, i.e. a model is available for your exact use case (which is never), then for using and deploying that can be done by a good SWE and any ML/AI specialist is not needed at all.

To solve any real problem that is novel, you need to know a lot of things. You need to be on top the progress made by reading papers and be a good enough engineer to implement the ideas that you are going to have iff you are creative/a good problem solver.

And to read those papers you need to have solid college level Calculus and Stats.

If this is so easy, then why don't you do it, and get a job at OpenAI/Tesla/etc?

[haltist]

It's a matter of opportunity cost. I don't think working in AI would be the best use of my time so I don't work at OpenAI/Tesla/etc.