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I work on such a team, and we don't refer to ourselves as "AI engineers". We're devs working on developing deep learning systems (but not genAI).
by JohnFen 2y ago
I work on such a team, and we don't refer to ourselves as "AI engineers". We're devs working on developing deep learning systems (but not genAI).
- swyx 2y agocorrect - but "developing a product that uses some form of AI at runtime" is a job that people do and the community has consolidated around "AI engineer" as shorthand https://www.latent.space/p/ai-engineer https://www.latent.space/p/ai-engineer i argue that its useful to have these shorthands to quickly understand what people do. its not so nice to just be default suspicious at a perhaps lower-technical-difficulty job that nevertheless a lot of comapnies want and a lot of people do
- dr_dshiv 2y agoDifficulty ≠ Value But we think it is, due to our learned industrious—which is the opposite of learned helplessness. We associate difficulty with reward. And we feel discomfort when really valuable things become very easy. Strange times.
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- throwaway290 2y agoWhy is it lower difficulty? If didn't get that impression from the article
- throwaway314155 2y ago> devs working on developing deep learning systems (but not genAI) Catchy job title.
- JohnFen 2y agoMy job title is "software engineer".
- 8338550bff96 2y agoI work on such a team too. I don't care what you call me - pay me