The Swyx Mixtape AI Engineering, Devin, and the Future of Software - swyx on Modern Web Podcast
Apr 17, 2024
Exploring the journey from software engineering to AI engineering, establishing AI engineering as an industry, importance of practical skills, role of 'rag stack', APIs in software development, co-generation in AI, Devin tool for developers, AI safety concerns, AI use cases for non-ML engineers
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Early NLP Application
- Sean Wang built his first NLP application as a currency derivatives trader in London.
- It parsed broker quotes on a Bloomberg terminal using Haskell, his first production language.
Rise of the AI Engineer
- Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT sparked wider interest in AI.
- Demand grew for software engineers building AI applications without traditional ML backgrounds, leading to the "AI engineer" concept.
Defining AI Engineers
- An AI engineer specializes in the emerging AI stack, focusing on production applications rather than research.
- They bridge the gap between raw foundation models and custom use cases.