Simon Willison’s Weblog

One big thing that a lot of people love to do is create new role types. For any new thing a company wants to do, the tendency is to put up a new job description.

I think a lot of people notice this and chafe at it when the role is for the new hotness. For example, every company wants to rub some AI on their stuff now, so they are putting up job descriptions for AI engineers.

If you’re an engineer interested in AI sitting in such a company, you’re annoyed that they’re doing this (and potentially paying that person more than you) when you could easily rub some AI on some stuff.

— Dan McKinley, Egoless Engineering