What's an ML engineer for? Data scientists with Claude licenses spark role debate
feregri_no · x · 2026-10-27
feregrino asks: when a data scientist with MLOps skills and a Claude license can do everything an ML engineer does and more, what's the role even for? He argues even a pure software engineer is more useful today, reflecting anxiety about ML engineering roles as AI coding tools spread.
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