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i 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
by swyx 3y ago
i 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.