I&#x27;m a machine learning specialist tackling interesting&#x2F;complex problems of a certain worth.  There is definitely an &quot;applying the ML hammer to every single nail&#x2F;problem&quot; thing going as well.<p>Example: say a company with 1B in revenue and 500M in costs: being able to give them 10% efficiency or 5% increase in revenue through optimization is a 50M value prop to them.  So to spend 5M to achieve those extra $s is entirely worth it.<p>Of course doing things that result in that optimization are nontrivial as well, but that&#x27;s what people pay me for. :)<p>The 15-20hrs a week thing is often a client constraint, because I&#x27;d ask for data and what not and would have to wait for them to provide me with what I ask for, or that their data has issues and I need to understand how to sanitize it.