Am I screwed or what? Advice pls.

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>It’s been somewhere between 1 and 1.5 years since I last wrote a line of code.</p> <p>I wrote everything from Assembly and C to Python and

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Agents are amazing. Harnesses are cool. But the fundamental role of a data scientist is not to use a generalist model in an existing workflow;

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I want to make an AI Project or something, I want to know how realistic it is for me to be able to make my own like chatbot or something. I know

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p><a href="https://youtu.be/vczBo0AvbTI?si=pglMPmTjsq-TNJa9&amp;t=375">https://youtu.be/vczBo0AvbTI?si=pglMPmTjsq-TNJa9&amp;t=375</a></p>

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p><strong>quick context:</strong> we're a small AI creative agency, 9 people, based in Pune. we work with brands on commercial visuals product

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Just went through a Stanford paper that tracked 51 actual AI deployments - not surveys or sentiment polls, real production systems across 41

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I think we're entering a strange phase where software is no longer helping users do tasks better, it's trying to remove the user from the task

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I did my B.Tech in AI/ML where I learned core machine learning concepts like model training, evaluation, etc., and also completed an ML