I'm currently a Python dev for a living, but I spend a portion of my personal time trying to get better at C/C++, and in my case, it's strictly about the potent

I'm currently a Python dev for a living, but I spend a portion of my personal time trying to get better at C/C++, and in my case, it's strictly about the potential for writing faster code. I'm interesting in getting into DSP stuff specifically, so it's 100% necessary if I want to do that, and I would also like to get my head wrapped around OpenCV for similarly creative reasons. Python opened up the world of code to a lot more people, but there was a cost to that, and the real action as far as actual computer systems go is always gonna be at a much lower level, in much the same way that a lot of people can top up their fluids but most of us pay someone to change the oil. I could actually totally see oil changes becoming completely robotic in the future, but we would first have to establish open standards for oil pans that all automakers adhered to. The whole computers designing computers thing, outside of someone cracking cold fusion I don't think we'll ever have the juice for it. In my lifetime, a C-level programmer will never be out of work, but I suspect that the demand for Python programmers is going to slack off, while the supply continues to grow.