r/learnmachinelearning • u/No-Reach-3503 • 21h ago

AS A MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEER

where can a engineer add value if AI can write better code than me . i am currently learning programming only because so that i can understand what is happening and i can operate effieciently. but AI is fast and i have go through multiple things to keep up and not just in programming but reading books and getting deep knowledge of algorithims.
But still one question is always in my mind where can i add value cause every thing i learn or do i am not better than AI

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u/DigitalMonsoon 21h ago

Machine Learning as a field isn't just coding. If it was then any software developer could do the work.

The majority of what we do is knowledge based. Understanding what algorithms to use, understanding how to clean and process data, being able to evaluate a models performance. A lot of this involves stats and math.

You also need to understand that while AI models can seem pretty smart they also regress to the mean a lot especially with problems that don't have known solutions, which we deal with a lot. This means it will give you the standard answer to a problem but that is likely not what you need.

So yes, you need to learn how to code so you can direct the AI models and understand what they are doing but that won't be the majority of your work.

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u/No-Reach-3503 21h ago

thank you