Comment by red75prime

2 hours ago

Investing in training a person gets you one trained person. Investing in training an ML system gets you a cloneable ML system that can be scaled on demand much faster. ROI might change quickly.

Sure, but we're simply not at the point, maybe never will be, where lack of employees is the bottleneck to chip production. A fab takes billions of dollars and multiple years to construct - there are many constraints.