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Just a side question but "while the rest of the world builds ai systems" makes me curious about what rough percentage of software engineers out there are working directly on building AI systems, even just on a front end level.

Assuming there's not an easily access exact percentage, just curious what people's perceptions are.

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Probably less than a year before although be aware that "ai systems" in this context most likely also means so called "gpt wrappers" (RAG systems, integrations etc.). Small data point: the software house I work for created a lot of those in 2024 because a lot of clients asked for it. However, clients quickly realized that it is not as quick and cheap as promised by AI companies and it requires a lot of work on their side to clean their data.

Yup, I'm curious about this as well, although on social media it seems as if everyone is working on AI Agents or I'm in an AI bubble.

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