The barriers to AI engineering are crumbling fast

I work on such a team, and we don't refer to ourselves as "AI engineers". We're devs working on developing deep learning systems (but not genAI).

correct - but "developing a product that uses some form of AI at runtime" is a job that people do and the community has consolidated around "AI engineer" as shorthand https://www.latent.space/p/ai-engineer

i argue that its useful to have these shorthands to quickly understand what people do. its not so nice to just be default suspicious at a perhaps lower-technical-difficulty job that nevertheless a lot of comapnies want and a lot of people do

Difficulty ≠ Value

But we think it is, due to our learned industrious—which is the opposite of learned helplessness. We associate difficulty with reward. And we feel discomfort when really valuable things become very easy. Strange times.

> devs working on developing deep learning systems (but not genAI)

Catchy job title.

I work on such a team too. I don't care what you call me - pay me

Why is it lower difficulty? If didn't get that impression from the article

My job title is "software engineer".