AI Engineer

“My AIE budget, I spent like six million dollars on AV this year. What's, what's a few tens of thousands.”

“And even the most brilliant engineer in the world is not going to be able to give you context or tell you how to get to context around a complicated Political issue. They're just not. That's not what their expertise is.”

“AI engineer exists in the white surface area between the peak capability and deploying it everywhere else, right? So the more model research peaks and spikes capabilities in one domain, but it's not evenly distributed in all products yet, that's where engineer…”

“Vast majority of best AI engineers in the world are in China today.”

“Having said that, I think it's also very difficult to get things right because the same three things are accessible to everyone. So really to stand out and then build something amazing in this day and age is going to be you know, exciting nevertheless, right?”

“Besides wanting to work for cool AI companies, the good ones actually want to work for companies where they have more access to data.”

“80% of so-called AI engineers, AI PMs spend their time actually understanding their workflows very well. They're not building the fanciest and the, you know, most cool models or workflows around it. They're actually in the weeds understanding their customers' …”

“An AI engineer needs to think like an architect. They have to think as if they're delegating all of their work to other engineers, and when they're delegating their work, how do they do that, right? And not only are they delegating their work to engineers, the…”

“Essentially everyone, every engineer is turning into an EM, engineering manager, coordinating all of these junior AI engineers.”

“Now AI has made it so easy for people who has domain knowledge to build software. So the biggest Threat that software engineers and AI engineers created is for themselves. Like, you know, that they are the ones who are going away first in, and, you know, the, …”

“Really good AI people are able to intuit what the quality curve will look like for a new feature.”

“Somebody that's very good at infrastructure cannot tell if somebody is amazing at AI, But it is this basic understanding that there are aspects to software that are just very, very different.”

“The right thing is not to say you need a bunch of applied science. I think you also need to grow the company to be AI engineers plus applied science. And that's what at the end might create the right product overall. Instead of just investing in the deep tech.”

“So the highest demand jobs in our portfolio today, other than perhaps AI engineers, are people who have full stack hardware and software experience, whether it's mechanical, electrical, et cetera.”

“In fact, I'd say, you know, AI has created more work for developers because now somebody has to build all these AI systems, and we're not At all at a point where you can just, you know, have an AI engineer, quote unquote do the job of a human, like that doesn'…”

“The three things that we say are most important for a highly effective AI engineer first of all, conventional software engineering skills, which is kind of a given, but definitely worth mentioning. The second thing is a curiosity and enthusiasm for machine lea…”

“We don't have an ML-focused interview for the AI engineer role at all, actually.”

“Tens of millions of engineers would become AI engineers versus like hundreds of thousands of ML scientists. That would beget the need for an application sort of framework for AI and tooling for that computing environment.”

“The uniqueness that we found for product development specific with AI is that You know, we define product best in class product development as a product manager and a minimum designer starting from the very beginning of ideation and building a product spec and…”

“And so having, AI engineers embedded with traditional engineers has been the big breakthrough for us and working together To develop and build these features and not seeing AI as, like Kevin said, an input output, you know, the model spits out a response that …”

“Frankly, for an AI engineer, you don't need it. You, your main thing that you needed to do was to, frankly, just play around with ChatGPT, or all the alternatives, be aware of the alternatives, because be very mercenary, swap out to Cloudia if it's better for …”

“In France, we are really good in we have very good AI engineers, machine learning engineers, because the education system is free, is very focused on mathematics. So we produce lots of good engineers, but we suck at growing companies.”