alt Hacker NewsI think the reason is much more simple.
It's very hard to improve something that you don't understand yourself. All the tiny decisions you make as you create a product are informed by the experience you have.
So it's seems obvious to me that a product created by software engineers would be better at software engineering. A programmer knows what a programmer needs.
To improve another industry successfully, you would really need people from that industry to be involved in a deep level in the design of the product.
Well for AI it's more like training than product design. I have switched from software engineering to AI training for software engineering (partly because honestly it is just much easier now to get that kind of gig work versus the programming contracts I was getting before).
They have a ton of tasks that pop up on my dashboard for all sorts of industries that I know nothing about. I think they are ramping up in non-software areas.