On: The barriers to AI engineering are crumbling fast

[hobs]

The better paying role is a Backend SWE (usually). A really a good data engineer is just a Backend SWE who has specific experience.

A bad one is a SQL analyst whose been promoted too much.

[bubbleRefuge → hobs]

as as data engieer/data architect , agreed. there are allot of 'tools' experts who are data engineers but can't code a lick.

[hobs → bubbleRefuge]

Yep, that's where I am at - the amount of times people have talked to me about the most recent podcast where they've heard how a new tool will solve all their problems and really its some samey mix of CDC and bad python+sql is... a lot.

I think there's not a ton of political palatability for realizing most of their projects are like one API and a sane use of some SQL away.