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> what else do you need to see to believe? (geniune question) It's not that I don't believe in LLMs. It's that the level of media attention AI is getting isn'
by cj 3y ago
> what else do you need to see to believe? (geniune question)
It's not that I don't believe in LLMs.
It's that the level of media attention AI is getting isn't backed by the same level of real world use cases, yet. (All of the use cases you listed are awesome, no denying that, but I don't think those alone justify the amount of hype in mainstream media)
- swyx 3y agoi mean, theres nothing i can do about mainstream media hype, but i guess my main point is this is a growing field with real money and utility behind it, and so will professionalize. if I am correct on that then AI Engineer will be a thing (because it is Least Bad title for the thing)
- skepticATX 3y agoAI Engineers are just software engineers who use specific tools. If we want to use a fancy title then that's fine, I guess. But let's not pretend that a typical dev can't easily learn vector DBs, data pre-processing, fine tuning, etc. None of these things require specialized knowledge in the way that say being an AI researcher would.
- _ea1k 3y agoYou could say the same about things like SREs or Devops. In fact, many of them transitioned from regular "software engineer" to these roles simply by learning closely related skills. That won't stop the industry from inventing new, useful titles.
- __loam 3y agoYou are actively contributing to the hype cycle lol.