No, you don't need to transition to ML, you don't need to work on ML, you don't need to learn ML (unless you want to of course). There's no ticking clock, you d

No, you don't need to transition to ML, you don't need to work on ML, you don't need to learn ML (unless you want to of course). There's no ticking clock, you don't need any of this in order to have a good career. > As I have to work another 30 years or so, I cannot deny that ML knowledge is more and more important nowadays and will become even more in the future. I think you're confusing being a user of ML tools with being someone who works on ML tools/systems/products. The landscape of available tools has really changed in the past year; the landscape for working in the field hasn't really - there aren't significantly more jobs, it's not much better or worse, it's not a job that everyone will need to do some day, it's just an okay sub-field of software engineering and/or research.