There’s a (or soon to be) market for software people that can evaluate a use case and apply an LLM if warranted. You don’t need a PhD but do need a good working knowledge of the nuts/bolts to speak truth to hype. Karpathy has a YouTube titles something like “a busy persons guide to LLM” and in it he describes the model as an operating system kernel with tools and utilities surrounding it. You can build and understand those valuable tools and utilities without having a PhD in AI. I think that’s the way to break into the AI market as a traditional developer.

A good example is llangchain