The switch to the terminology of "forward deployed engineer" to replace consultant has been overwhelming. Almost certainly driven by the bad connotations that the title consultant has. Makes me wonder how long it will take to burn through any positives associated with that title before they switch to something else.
I've also seen a huge number of data scientists rebrand as "AI engineers" so I agree with that title's placement in the chart but I think that ultimately that's the wrong place for it to live. I'm convinced that AI Engineer will be a specialization of backend engineering since the work to integrate agents into production systems will be backend work not model training or other data tasks.
I've also seen a huge number of data scientists rebrand as "AI engineers" so I agree with that title's placement in the chart but I think that ultimately that's the wrong place for it to live. I'm convinced that AI Engineer will be a specialization of backend engineering since the work to integrate agents into production systems will be backend work not model training or other data tasks.