[leereeves]

Is ML even a programming job?

I see it more like data science, 10% programming 90% math.

Edit: 3% programming, 30% math, 67% scrubbing data. Thanks for the correction shortoncash. :)

[shortoncash]

Most ML jobs are sitting around scrubbing data. The fun math part is like 5% of the job, and usually there's some guy (or a small handful of guys) that's a PhD who is hired to do all of that because he was in the research area before he left academia.

I could be wrong, but this is my experience.

[softawre]

Agreed. We call that team "operations research" and they are all PhDs. The ML devs build the pipelines and deal with engineering concerns around having/moving/securing lots of data.

[milosdog2]

That too. So how is all computer science not 'web dev' and not a viable career choice? Assuming we are talking about the "right" kind of web dev, I guess.

[koudos]

I think there's a general misuse of terms like AI, Machine Learning, Data science and Data engineer. ML is the new "Big Data"