Any other data scientists struggle to get assigned to LLM projects?

At work, I find myself doing more of what I've been doing - building custom models with BERT, etc. I would like to get some experience with GPT-4 and other generative LLMs, but management always has the software engineers working on those, because.. well, it's just an API. Meanwhile, all the Data Scientist job ads call for LLM experience. Anyone else in the same boat?

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