[klipt]

There's plenty of non ML software engineering to be done. Anecdotally a large proportion of interns want an "ML project", but only a small percentage of teams looking for interns are offering one.

Too many people going into ML could skew the supply/demand into making it a worse job option (more work, less pay), like game programming or academia.

[seanmcdirmid]

There aren’t that many engineers with 10+ years of ML experience ATM, but there will be tons in 5 or so years. Chasing tomorrow’s trend is always more productive than chasing today’s, but of course the former requires predicting the future.

[rhacker]

The question is this: 10 years from now when the top job requirements list ML - are you going to be ready or out of the game?

[carlmr]

Alternatively the market is flooded with ML people and the value of ML on your CV is 0.