Is AI ML difficult?

Depends on which AI job. Math-heavy frameworks appear in a minority of postings: 2,547 live jobs name PyTorch and 0 TensorFlow, against 0 for ChatGPT, out of 63,380 postings that cite a tool. 114,515 of 140,131 jobs are Little AI, where the work involves no AI at all. Measured October 2026.

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How this number is measured

Every figure above is computed from the live postings on Level at the time of measurement, October 2026. Each posting is read for how much of the daily work is AI, then rated from Little AI to Builds AI. Salaries use the posting's own range, in US dollars only. Numbers are recomputed monthly and the page is updated when they move by more than 10 percent.