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The Rise of the AI Engineer - by swyx - Latent Space

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Emergent capabilities are creating an emerging job title beyond the Prompt Engineer. Plus: Join 500 AI Engineers at our first summit, Oct 8-10 in SF!

The Rise of the AI Engineer Emergent capabilities are creating an emerging title: to wield them, we'll have to go beyond the Prompt Engineer and write *software*, and AI that writes software. Jun 30, 2023 499 20 44 Share We are observing a once in a generation “shift right” of applied AI , fueled by the emergent capabilities and open source/API availability of Foundation Models. A wide range of AI tasks that used to take 5 years and a research team to accomplish in 2013 , now just require API docs and a spare afternoon in 2023 . Important : the API line is permeable - AI Engineers can go left

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