Applied AI engineering: More backend than model training
BugFreeHire · reddit · 2026-08-27
A veteran dev describes applied AI engineering: it's mostly retrieval, tool wiring, building evals, and handling failures. The mental shift is building around a probabilistic component where tests become datasets and monitoring. The API call is easy; ensuring reliability amidst changes is the real engineering challenge.
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