The Rise of the AI Engineer • I think software engineering will spawn a new subdiscipline, specializing in applications of AI and wielding the emerging stack effectively, just as “site reliability engineer”, “devops engineer”, “data engineer” and “analytics engineer” emerged. The emerging (and least cringe) version of this role seems to be: AI Engineer. • (Latent Space, swyx) / June 30

The Many Ways that Digital Minds Can Know • Detractors of LLMs describe them as blurry jpegs of the web, or stochastic parrots. Promoters of LLMs describe them as having sparks of AGI, or learning the generating function of multivariable calculus. These positions seem opposed to each other and are the subject of acrimonious debate. I do not think they are opposed, and I hope in this post to convince you of that. • (Ryan Moulton) / June 28