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Totally possible. About 30-40% of the people in our AI team don’t have a formal AI background. Especially with LLMs a lot of work has shifted towards “data literate software engineering”. We call them AI engineers / AI developers. Good development skills are very transferable to those roles.

Feel free to reach out if you’re in the EU (email in profile), we’re hiring. Also happy to give some pointers on how to approach these conversations.

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I'm always skeptical of these roles. Very often they do not involve anything AI related which is why a formal AI background is not required.

Exactly.

Depends on your perspective. I think it’s like front-end development likely means you work _with_ React, not that you’re writing front end frameworks from scratch. In a similar way AI devs in our team work with LLMs, but they don’t create them from scratch.

The difference is the frontend role would require a real understanding of React, but these "AI dev" roles don't require a real understanding of AI.

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