--- title: AI Engineers then Vs Now | daily.dev description: Discussion about "AI Engineers then Vs Now" on daily.dev - join the developer community canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-engineers-then-vs-now-vll6maizi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AI Engineers then Vs Now | daily.dev og:description: Discussion about "AI Engineers then Vs Now" on daily.dev - join the developer community og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-engineers-then-vs-now-vll6maizi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/VLL6mAizi.png og:image:alt: AI Engineers then Vs Now og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI Engineers then Vs Now **[Friedrich WT](https://daily.dev/sources/ecykgssvlzkqy1g7nxkjc)** · [@friedrich](https://daily.dev/friedrich) · 1 min read · 112 upvotes · 15 comments ## Content  ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@idoshamun** · 5 upvotes > Nailed it! **@fabianletsch** · 5 upvotes > Basically "AI Engineer" today is just a rebranding of "I know how to write prompts" **@shapes** · 3 upvotes > "AI will take programmers jobs!" **@aliahmadcodes** · 2 upvotes > Cost. 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Cloud burn. **@a\_meb\_a** · 1 upvotes > engineering? they said that once they were useful, now they're writers... promp writers hahahahq --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#machine-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/machine-learning), [#nlp](https://daily.dev/tags/nlp), [#chatgpt](https://daily.dev/tags/chatgpt) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-engineers-then-vs-now-vll6maizi) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/ai-engineers-then-vs-now-vll6maizi","headline":"AI Engineers then Vs Now","text":"Discussion about \"AI Engineers then Vs Now\" on daily.dev - join the developer community","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/ai-engineers-then-vs-now-vll6maizi","datePublished":"2025-10-03T10:01:59.112Z","dateModified":"2025-10-03T10:02:29.143Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Friedrich WT","url":"https://daily.dev/friedrich","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/136119888?v=4","description":"CS Student || Web dev and Devops.","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"EndorseAction"},"userInteractionCount":31610}},"image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--vJZYpXFX--/f_auto/v1759485719/posts/VLL6mAizi?_a=BAMAK+ZW0","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":112},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":15}],"comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"Nailed it!","datePublished":"2025-10-05T15:25:59.189Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/VLL6mAizi#c-iZZUCIGze","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Ido Shamun","url":"https://daily.dev/idoshamun","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s---xy_OAwk--/f_auto,q_auto/v1703781380/avatars/avatar_28849d86070e4c099c877ab6837c61f0"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":5}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Basically “AI Engineer” today is just a rebranding of “I know how to write prompts”","datePublished":"2025-10-05T22:32:52.780Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/VLL6mAizi#c-OtODn0ton","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Fabian Letsch","url":"https://daily.dev/fabianletsch","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocKR6BVy_wn23EoOKq7-BlszlcXcLmASlnb7l-GtS-q1bePnkaJf=s96-c"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":5}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"“AI will take programmers jobs!”","datePublished":"2025-10-13T20:19:30.923Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/VLL6mAizi#c-iUVTVVogq","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"SHAPeS","url":"https://daily.dev/shapes","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--NS8ECD_q--/f_auto/v1753752710/avatars/avatar_6KZzDPxLXOSyFqzZftzOi?_a=BAMClqZW0"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Cost. 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