Ask HN: What Is an "AI Engineer"?

4•seattle_spring•52m ago

I'm seeing an enormous contingency of my LinkedIn connections change their titles to "AI Engineer." I know for a fact that they're not working on any models or even AI workflows, they're just building apps and backends using AI tools like Claude.

Is that what "AI Engineer" means nowadays? Is that what companies are looking for when they open recs for "AI Engineer"? Should I be marketing myself as an "AI Engineer" just because I'm very efficient using modern AI tooling to build good non-AI software?

Comments

root-parent•49m ago

Somebody soon to lose their job?

kys11•1m ago

Soon to be a “facilities engineer” lol

gavinray•26m ago

I wrote an entire blogpost about this ridiculous phenomenon:

https://gavinray97.github.io/blog/absurdity-of-ai-engineer-t...

agup792•22m ago

The definition is definitely changing.. or the way people are using it. AI PM used to mean something very different than what it does now as well!

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