The most accurate description of LLM AI Engineering right now
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Anton posted this on X today, and while I whole heartedly agree with him, it missed the point. We’ve done this same thing with every other branching of engineering: frontend dev, data engineering, devops… Hardly anyone calls a Frontend Developer today a “Programmer”. The reason we do it this way in tech is to broaden out the category and get more folks into it.
Frontend Devs all feel like a group to each other because they all can identify the difference between writing in TypeScript vs old vanilla Javascript, while to everyone else it is all just Javascript.
Data Engineers identify themselves in other Data Engineers because they can all tell the difference between a Luigi and a Cron Job, while to the rest of us it is all just ETL.
Analytics Engineers are all able to laugh at names like “Coalesce” (the Conference), but to everyone else it is just a strange word with no meaning.
Bottom line, you want to matter and start a movement - you better come up with your own language, or you will not survive and something like Oracle will come, and eat you alive.
The most accurate description of LLM AI Engineering right now
The most accurate description of LLM AI Engineering right now
The most accurate description of LLM AI Engineering right now
Anton posted this on X today, and while I whole heartedly agree with him, it missed the point. We’ve done this same thing with every other branching of engineering: frontend dev, data engineering, devops… Hardly anyone calls a Frontend Developer today a “Programmer”. The reason we do it this way in tech is to broaden out the category and get more folks into it.
Frontend Devs all feel like a group to each other because they all can identify the difference between writing in TypeScript vs old vanilla Javascript, while to everyone else it is all just Javascript.
Data Engineers identify themselves in other Data Engineers because they can all tell the difference between a Luigi and a Cron Job, while to the rest of us it is all just ETL.
Analytics Engineers are all able to laugh at names like “Coalesce” (the Conference), but to everyone else it is just a strange word with no meaning.
Bottom line, you want to matter and start a movement - you better come up with your own language, or you will not survive and something like Oracle will come, and eat you alive.
Happy Friday!
p.s. here is Anton in his own words: