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Re:Why I learned to code instead of pursuing a career in fin... by freyir on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @11:25AM (#15442579)
Software eats finance because it’s making traditional finance jobs obsolete.

ML does not eat software in the same sense, because ML and software engineers generally do non-overlapping work. ML involves analysis, software involves synthesis.

There may be a day when ML automates software development, but it’s nowhere close yet.

At most, ML is merely dominating current hype among software-adjacent technologies (along with block chain).

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Re:Why I learned to code instead of pursuing a career in fin... by bitL on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @11:34AM (#15442652)
> because ML and software engineers generally do non-overlapping work

not in the mainstream right now. Check back in 10 years.

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Re:Why I learned to code instead of pursuing a career in fin... by downrightmike on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @02:01PM (#15443903)
It'll be either ML or nuclear winter. Heck, maybe both.
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