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I think programming will move away from the standard business stuff as things become automated.

A.I, machine learning and distributed systems will become more in demand to replace it.




To the extent that this is true I doubt that it will create many additional programming jobs for people with advanced math skills. AI/ML is like cryptography, compilers, or programming languages now. You implement the algorithms a few times for proprietary products or open source libraries and then they get reused by millions.

The bulk of the work is still connecting the algorithms to real world data sources, creating interfaces to monitor and view their results, and explaining to non-technical people how to use them.

If anything AI/ML will create more jobs for non-math people who are working on the glue level because the better the tech is behind the scenes the more value it creates and the more potential customers there will be.




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