>>Even very heavily data-centric companies only hire a few ML specialists for every handful of general purpose code monkeys. True for now, but it will change.

>>Even very heavily data-centric companies only hire a few ML specialists for every handful of general purpose code monkeys. True for now, but it will change. Once terms like 'Statistics', 'ML' and 'Data science' will become common place, there will be a ridiculous amount of lust for automation jobs. Sure you won't be fixing the beta release bugs for skynet 1.0. But almost any job which has a scope for data collection, analysis and automation will demand skills in these area.