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I’m really starting to feel uneasy about the “engineer” job-title inflation thesedays…

"Prompt engineer" opened the floodgates, it made me realize how much I'd been skimping on my consultation and development fees with the Sandwich Engineers at Subway.

I feel like this conversation isn't complete without referencing Hillel Wayne's "Are We Really Engineers?"

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/are-we-really-engineers/

I thought AI engineers had to pass board exams, after several years of supervised professional practice, and were liable for any work they certified?

Am I misunderstanding the term?

I expect my "AI" engineers to know both RAG and what KL-divergences are. If you only know the former, you are just a backend developer, not a ML engineer.

By using AI to apply for the job and do your work.

AI should be able to engineer itself.

Or does that take imagination?

I should ask the bot, but I pledged AI-free Mondays.

"To be successful as this archetype, you need to spend a lot of time keeping track of AI news on X/Bluesky/Reddit."

Or that is what you tell yourself...

Come on, are you really serious about this?

Of course, you should ask an LLM that question...

How can I be an AI engineer?