Ask HN: Most Valuable Jobs of 2025?
Four years from now, what will be the most valuable job fields? AI? 6G? Biotech? Clean energy? Quantum computing? Something else entirely?
I think another frontier is knowing how to manage and build organizations that understand data and ML. In the same way software caused traditional engineering orgs to rethink processes, eventually data expertise will infiltrate management. The processes we use to deliver working, well performing data-based solutions will change and cause traditional software orgs to rethink how they deliver work. These processes will be more about running frequent, repeatable experiments and less about iterative feature dev.
So, to sum up:
- ML engineering
- Data scientists that can deliver working code
- managers with data expertise
And I’d emphasize less:
- research, “fancier model” oriented ML and data science
Other random bets:
- office space for remote workers that just want a quiet, private place to work. Boring class A office space converted into single offices rented individually.
- home tech support for remote workers to improve reliability, etc of tech and network experience.
1) Fintech. It'll be messy with the aftermath of COVID, moratoriums, etc. Combine it with new and old banking regulations, islamic banking, ways to finance the poor, bubbles popping, crowdfunding. Then you have crypto and retail investors. It's going to be a bloodbath. And there's plenty of space for the young and hungry.
2) Remote work. Not just non-offices, but working internationally. If you're going to hire someone who doesn't come into office, why not just hire someone whose living costs are 10x lower? Inversely, there are a lot of problems with it; who's solving them?
3) AI creativity. It's more creative than humans now. Where will it be 4 years from now? We're seeing the side effects of too much creativity - it turns your brain into mush. It'll be a new revolution, like assembly lines, but in the opposite direction. We're experimenting how much we can totally delegate to AI and how much support infrastructure we need to build around it.
Yeah I second this
Network security, with a focus on the use of unidirectional networks to make infiltration of control impossible will be required for protecting infrastructure that needs to be monitored.
Multiple skill sets will come into play, the more general the knowledge set you have, the more valuable you'll become.
Maybe just AI/ML would become less and less lucrative due to a huge glut of people graduating into it.