Not at a YC company, but yeah my guess would be that it&#x27;s hard to get the trend followers on board with other stuff. I&#x27;ve anecdotally seen myself a lot of candidates (esp at the recent-university&#x2F;recent-MS level) who&#x27;ve taken some ML courses cause it&#x27;s trendy and sounds interesting but (a) don&#x27;t have a serious enough interest in it or knowledge of how to apply it well enough to be a good fit on our ML teams and (b) aren&#x27;t open to other roles because they sound less cool or have a perception that the day to day work will be more tedious.