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AI Engineering in the real world - by Gergely Orosz

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What does AI engineering look like in practice? Hands-on examples and learnings from software engineers turned “AI engineers” at seven companies

AI Engineering is the hottest new engineering field, and it’s also an increasingly loaded phrase which can mean a host of different things to different people. It can refer to ML engineers building AI models, or data scientists and analysts working with large language models (LLMs), or software engineers building on top of LLMs, etc. To make things more confusing, some AI tooling vendors use the term for their products, like Cognition AI naming theirs an “AI engineer.” In her new book “AI Engineering,” author Chip Huyen defines AI engineering as building applications that use LLMs, placing…

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