- finetuning/other post-pretrain model tools (axolotl, mergekit <- all made and used by people without traditional ML engineer/researcher background)
- multimodal models/frameworks like vocode and comfyui
- AI UX tools like vercel ai sdk
- synthetic data generation tooling? whatever the nous pple have made
open question whether inference frameworks like llama.cpp/ollama or vllm and tgi count as AI Eng tools? again given the background of ggeranov and the students behind the other projects, arguably yes but ofc it starts to bleed into classical mlops here. (update: i see u have them in the "model development" category, ok fair)