LinkedIn: AI created 2M jobs; Andrew Ng pitches embedding AI engineers in business teams
DeepLearningAI · x · 2026-11-11
DeepLearning.AI shared Andrew Ng's latest Batch letter citing a LinkedIn Pulse study: AI has helped create 2 million jobs, and AI Engineer ranks among the top 10 fastest-growing roles in 7 major economies. Ng argues the data undermines the "jobpocalypse" narrative and highlights a new pattern — embedding AI-savvy engineers inside marketing, HR, and finance to build workflow automations, dashboards, data infrastructure, and custom apps. Coding agents have made engineers productive enough that this embedded model now makes sense; Ng's own teams are already doing it. The accompanying chart shows AI Engineer jobs grew to 38.9% of AI job posts on LinkedIn by 2026, with ML Engineer at 26.9% and Forward Deployed roles at 7.3%.
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