[GoldenMonkey]

It is absolutely a brutal job market for all software developers. Never seen anything like the current market. Seems like there is an oversupply of H1B's and recent graduates.

If Stanford Computer Science graduates aren't landing jobs.

And even 'AI Engineer' roles are hard to come by. I'd be wary.

[JustExAWS]

I’m always dumbfounded by the term “AI Engineer” unless you are actually working on the foundation models. Everything else is just knowing how to make AI calls, prompting and understanding RAG.

I’m not dismissing Gen AI at all, I’ve used it for three non chatbot projects so far and it’s made some really previous hard problems easy. But it was just a newer much easier tool in my tool belt that could have been done (probably better) with traditional ML techniques with much more development effort and maintenance overhead.

[Nextgrid]

It's the next evolution of people branding themselves as "senior" developers just because they followed a Next.js tutorial and managed to deploy it on some PaaS (and having worked with such, I'm impressed they actually even managed that).

Problem is: it works. Being against it just puts you at a disadvantage, so enjoy your new "AI Engineer" title. Call yourself Senior AI Engineer while you're at it.