>$400k/yr is AI Engineer.
Ask HN: How do you define an "AI engineer"?
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#12I don't
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#13Someone that previously worked on crypto :p
lmao
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#14> Is this persona a data scientist/data engineer/MLE? MLE, just a different name for it.
gotcha, thank you :)
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#1598% are people who can make http calls to OpenAI api. 2% actually work on OpenAI systems.
accurate
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#16In the USA, anyone can be an engineer. All they require is the will to call themselves an engineer. (Except for a few specific types). Eg, customer service engineers are now a thing
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#17Anyone that can get someone else to hire them as an "AI engineer".
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#18Someone who mastered HTTP calls
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#19Someone who has no idea what they're doing, like not even the slightest clue. They spend 90% of their time curating datasets, call every executable file a "notebook," require detailed instructions on how to submit a pull request, hard-code user specific variables, forms URLs with query strings using string concatenation, doesn't read manpages, and listens to terrible music
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#2098% are people who can make http calls to OpenAI api. 2% actually work on OpenAI systems.
There are a lot of models being worked on outside of OpenAI.