The barriers to AI engineering are crumbling fast

Is anyone instantly suspicious when they introduce themselves these days an "AI Developer"

I would interpret that as somebody working on ML algorithms and architectures, not somebody developing a product that uses some form of AI at runtime...

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