I talk to pre-IPO AI CEOs, Gartner experts, dozens of GLG guys, product managers building AI products at Salesforce,
Microsoft, Palantir, Google, PayPal, and probably a couple of dozen other software companies, along with the guys implementing AI in the tech stacks at Goldman, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Citi, BofA, and other large investment banks.
I've even met with the guys implementing AI at NASDAQ, which they are selling as an independent security and compliance product. I've spoken with or met with hundreds of AI experts over the last few years.
If you think that knowing how to write code for Flash meant you understood Adobe and where the company roadmap was going, you're wrong, and thinking that a little training in programming AI makes someone an expert is equally silly.