[jstx1]

> The company I work for just jumped on the bandwagon and is actually searching for people with ML/AI experience. If you can use Spark, TensorFlow, Scikit and Keras

This has nothing to do with question though. No one is hiring people who know Spark and Tensorflow to replace jobs. The kind of job replacement OP is asking about will potentially come from having your company sign a huge contract with Azure or whatever, hook up a bunch of LLM agents and APIs to it and lay off your 90% of your client support department. It won't be "we heard about AI on the news so we hired someone who knows keras". Companies do this but they have been doing it for many years - it isn't new or interesting (and many companies figured out how to do it well along the way too).

> But if you can claim experience with these frameworks, enjoy the ride. Companies are going to pay you whatever you ask.

No, they won't. The pay is similar to other software development. If at some companies it's higher, it might be something like 10% higher, definitely not "pay you whatever you want".

You're extrapolating too much from your company and your comment seems to be based on things that were relevant 5+ years ago, not on what's been happening in the field in the past 12 months.