Here's the important part: your budget is not static. It's not something you set and forget. Maybe you check in and realize your food budget is busted because you hosted a dinner party. No problem — just move money from somewhere else to cover it. Maybe when the next month starts, you see that your budget didn't really work. Make a new budget based off what you learned!

Without a mechanism for continuous and diverse learning, AI systems will tend to reproduce the dominant patterns already present in their training data. That limitation would make truly creative work difficult.

A learning system can continuously incorporate real-world data in a way that numerical solvers fundamentally cannot, capturing and compounding the knowledge that is currently trapped out there in the real world.

Keep in mind that as a software developer, of any degree, learning is continuous. New technologies, new ways to write code, not so new approaches, persisting patterns. Read books, watch online courses, follow tutorials, keep learning!