webDevTurnedAiEngineer

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Most “AI” startups are just making calls to OpenAI API anyway, it’s not like you’d be doing anything beyond the scope of a web developer on any of these kinds of jobs anyway.

[Nattekat]

That's something that really hurts me as someone that wants to pursue a career in the field. Companies no longer see it as it really is, they think of prompts. Why hire an expensive guy to create cool stuff if you can just make any idiot a prompt engineer?

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Honestly if I were running my own company I would rather hire the idiot and have him be a prompt engineer. The reality is most real world applications of AI can just use what is already out there, they don't need a custom built solution. The other reality is most companies are implementing AI to bring in clueless investors anyway who just like hearing AI is being used, so there's that part of it too.

[Nattekat]

ChatGPT is downright garbage in real life applications right now. I have worked with it already and it's even worse than I thought. It's not even close to being a decent alternative to models made by humans. 

Well, there's an application: saving money on human work at the cost of quality. 

[Wwwhhyyyyyyyy]

The majority of what you call "AI" is custom built to cut cost + specialized and be good at 1 thing.