#92 - Rise of the AI Engineer with Shawn Wang

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In this episode, I spoke with Shawn Wang, who coined the term "AI Engineer" as a new title for engineers who are building the chains and agents that powers AI applications. This is likely to be the highest-demand engineering job of the decade.
We talked about the evolution of software development and how AI is changing everything. And why ambitious developers should attach themselves to AI and build thought leadership in this space.
We also touched on topics such as AGI (artificial general intelligence), and talked about Shawn's "smol-developer" project, which lets you bootstrap entire projects using prompt engineering.
If you want to see Shawn's short demo of smol-developer, then you can watch the episode on YouTube here.
Links from the episode:

• Latent Space
• Rise of the AI engineer article
• OpenAI dev day keynote
• OpenAI's Vision API
• smol-developer
• AI Engineer summit day 1
• AI Engineer summit day 2
• My post on orchestration vs choreography

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0