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If you have React engineers, why couldn't you have AI engineers? I think the post is right to try to delineate the roles of "builds LLMs or other ML models" an
by senko 3y ago
If you have React engineers, why couldn't you have AI engineers?
I think the post is right to try to delineate the roles of "builds LLMs or other ML models" and "uses those models", as (as you noted) the skills required are very different (vs. "creates a JS framework" vs "uses a JS framework" are the same skills, just on another level).
"AI engineer" is, as you say, inaccurate, but as swyx says, it's least cringy of the alternatives.
> Sure, you might need a few days to understand a few concepts, I've integrated with Paypal in the past and that doesn't make me a payment for engineer.
No, but the post explicitly calls out the breadth of knowledge that the future AI engineers will have to have. It's not something you can pick up in a few days, even now, if you want to be on top of things.
I can look up some docs and hook up static file hosting on S3 and that doesn't make an AWS engineer. But there are people who full time work on providing solutions using AWS-everything and have built their entire careers (and companies) on top of that specialization.
The difference in scale is the difference in job description.
- ignoramous 3y ago> If you have React engineers, why couldn't you have AI engineers? We most definitely could. That's one way to prop up a cottage industry, stay relevant, command hefty salaries, and maintain that charade of importance through complexity by creating Frankenstein features in search of problems and promotions.
- bedobi 3y agolike the canned messages that are increasingly finding themselves into any app where you can send messages to people, be it email, whatsapp, tinder, whatever "Hey John! I see you like traveling, I love traveling too! What are some of the most memorable trips you've had?" like, who would want to receive such an obviously canned message lol? soon, it will just be the apps talking to each other, no humans required
- jackphilson 3y agoAnd that's how you get black mirror - hang the DJ
- 29athrowaway 3y agoBecause AI as terminology is vague and can mean anything. Graph search is AI, pathfinding is AI, decision trees are AI, fuzzy logic is AI, expert systems are AI, machine learning is AI. Just say LLM analyst or whatever.
- gkvtqcvmcs 3y agoYea i agree, maybe calling them LLM Engineers as against AI Engineers would go down better with folks though? ML enables LLM's that enable AI, So its definitely semantics