The Rise of the AI Engineer

Swyx's 2023 essay that named the job. Code that orchestrates models, not just trains them.

by @swyxAdded Jun 30, 2023

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🆕 Essay: The Rise of the AI Engineer latent.space/p/ai-engineer Keeping up on AI is becoming a full time job. Let's get together and define it.

5:06 PM · Jun 30, 2023

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