Its a clever academic demo in 1000 lines of C.
What everyone needs is intelligent circuit breaker + auto-remediation layer on top of existing schedulers (Airflow, Temporal).
The gap is real the opportunity is open.
in my 40s here as well, career shift is not a an odd thing anymore these days (i guess), myself (Elementary Teacher for 2 years with university degree > Civil engineer for 7 years with univ degree > software engineer without a degree 3 years indie sole projects > now considering career shift again but still not sure to what!)
I think its up to your goals (you go after what drives you ) if its moeny then go wherever money-industries go, if its passion then go be creative and let the passion drives you.
On a more serious note, just as swyx mentioned in a comment further up, we do believe a lot of the challenges of reliably operationalising agents boil down to data. All of which is non-obvious to AI engineers (besides Frontier Labs gathering/generating data for model training).
What the right shape is - we are all figuring it out. Happy to trade notes.
I think that's the real gap. Non-technical people don't want to learn DreamWeaver or SquareSpace's backend. They want to describe what they need and have it just work.
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