Ask HN: Is it worth learning ML and maths as a software engineer in 2024?

As a software engineer with little memory of maths from school :( I have become obsessed with machine learning and all of the advancements in AI. So much so, my curious mind is starting to learn pytorch and some of the associated maths (I feel like I'm learning things and making hands on progress).

Have any SEs learnt similar? Did it help at all with work, did you move over to a different role based on strong software engineering with weak maths/ML?