Is DS actually dying?

I’ve heard multiple sentiments from reddit and irl that DS is a dying field, and will be replaced by ML/AI engineering (MLE). I know this is not 100% true, but I am starting to worry. To what extent is this claim accurate?

From where I live, there seems to be a lot more MLE jobs available than DS. Of the few DS jobs, some of the JD asks for a lot more engineering skills like spark, cloud computing and deployment …

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