Comment by tristor

> Also, the people being hired now for insane sums of money, are being hired because they have deep knowledge in design / implementation of AI models and infrastructure that scale to billions of users.

That's what they want you to believe, and in some cases that's true. Many though are just grifters. They were able to:

1. Gain access to the right people at the right levels to have the right conversations.

2. Build on that access to gain influence focused on AI hype

3. Turn that access/influence into income

That doesn't necessarily imply /anything/ about their actual delivery performance or technical prowess.