Accept two facts. One, everyone assumes you know and care about what
they're talking about. Two, nothing that you or they do on a weekly
timescale matters in the slightest to the bottom line.
... said no one ever. Incidentally, Ray is certainly among
the better funded outfits, but by now, everyone can
see generalized MLOps is never going to happen. Nature
of the beast calls for bespoke hardware and in-house dev.
Some do it to have closure themselves too, e.g. Randy Pausch's The Last Lecture, which he said he wrote despite his family's wishes to just spend more time with him.
Most American universities allow precocious high schoolers to graduate
in three years, but unless tuition money is a concern, a fourth year to
soak it all in is worth it. Your working life is long -- one year is nothing.
