Know some general Ideas like Attention, Diffusion, Vector DB, Backprop, Dropout, Unet etc and where they work best on. Additionally know SOTA models for general use cases. When a new use case arises you should know where to dig and how to code. Have strong understanding on all these new concepts and feel free code them yourself. Most papers are just combinations of these general Ideas. If you are on a project, only then you should read in depth papers on that use case.
Know some general Ideas like Attention, Diffusion, Vector DB, Backprop, Dropout, Unet etc and where they work best on. Additionally know SOTA models for general use cases. When a new use case arises you should know where to dig and how to code. Have strong understanding on all these new concepts and feel free code them yourself. Most papers are just combinations of these general Ideas. If you are on a project, only then you should read in depth papers on that use case.