This is *especially* obvious when you meet a lot of "AI engineers" and realize that if their underlying API doesn't support it, they can't do it and you realize, "Oh... you're a python programmer who's read the docs. You're... you're not actually an AI specialist. You know this Python API."
There are obviously enormously smart, respectable people in the field. But they are not needed or even wanted to make a customer support chatbot or copyright ripping sextbot or whatever. That's for the marks