Comment by asimeqi

As somebody who was paid for many years to turn AI researchers' code into usable products, I have one piece of advice. If you want to become an AI researcher, don't fix their code. I did this in the hope that I eventually would get to work directly in an AI project. When I finally got to participate in such a project part-time, it turned out that I could finish in a matter of days a task that would take the AI researchers weeks. That didn't please them at all so soon enough I was switched full-time to my non AI project since that one "needed me more". If you want to become an AI researcher, do AI researcher projects, simple as that.