A good engineer and / or a tenured engineer could very well be compared to Picasso in this story. A tenured engineer did not just sit their entire career drawing that painting on the napkin, they delivered other results too. But at the end of it, they are able to deliver a Picasso at a moment's notice.
It actually matches up well with the current AI scene, except backwards. We use these model which cost ridiculous amounts of money to train, and all of that effort goes into producing the outputs we use, but we're paying something not too far above the marginal cost of inference when we use them.
A good engineer and / or a tenured engineer could very well be compared to Picasso in this story. A tenured engineer did not just sit their entire career drawing that painting on the napkin, they delivered other results too. But at the end of it, they are able to deliver a Picasso at a moment's notice.
It actually matches up well with the current AI scene, except backwards. We use these model which cost ridiculous amounts of money to train, and all of that effort goes into producing the outputs we use, but we're paying something not too far above the marginal cost of inference when we use them.
So not applicable at all