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AI Engineer jobs will outnumber ML Engineer jobs within five years.

Shawn Wang (swyx), Latent Space · made Jun 30, 2023 · target Jun 2028 · Open

There are 10x as many ML Engineer jobs as AI Engineer jobs on Indeed, but the higher growth rate of “AI” leads me to predict that this ratio will invert in 5 years.
Shawn Wang (swyx), The Rise of the AI Engineer

The prediction

Who
Shawn Wang (swyx), Editor, Latent Space
Made
Jun 30, 2023
Target
Jun 30, 2028 (stated as "in 5 years")
Status
Openin 21 months
Source
The Rise of the AI Engineer Primary: their own words · original recording
Topics
Jobs

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