Comment by drewcoo

So when ML seems like a scam that means it's just not done right. And there are some successes that show that it does actually work, really. When it's done right. As determined by its ultimate success.

We are an industry as notorious for snake oil as we are for our lack of standards. And both have standard apologetics. The parent's comment is reminiscent of the refrains "Agile, you're doing it wrong" and "that's not the way to write microservices," among many similar others.

I don't think the problem with any of this is ML as such. ML is just software. But software has problems.