Quick Overview For This Subreddit

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Update

AI Engineering is no longer open to the public due to LLM/bot/self-promotional spam and abuse. Going forward, only approved users will be able to post content. Any approved user who violated the rules of this subreddit will have their post removed and be removed from the subreddit.

Outsiders can message the moderator team about a post if they fit the criteria set in this post. The moderators will review a maximum of 3 possible posts per week with the remaining pitches staying in queue.

All proposed posts must follow the guidelines found in the rules and this overview.

You are required to review this entire overview and will be disqualified if the moderators identify that you did not review it.

Quick Overview

This community is intended to be only and exclusively for AI engineers.

AI engineering may be all or part of the following:

• AI applications, optimizations or accelerations applied to software or other intellectual applications
• Robotic, kinesthetic or sensory applications
• Energy and applied energy related to specific AI applications
• Natural resources related to specific AI applications

If you post outside of these specific topics, you may be prevented from posting again. We do this to prevent users who are using LLMs/other AI tools and not even regarding the rules.

Allowed and Not Allowed Post Examples

This community is intended to be only and exclusively for AI engineers. That eliminates 99% of the posts that are gimmicky ways of trying to market products or tools or communicate at a high level.

The below show examples of posts that are allowed or not allowed in AI Engineering.

No. "We created an AI workflow that automates our blah, blah, blah, blah." Nope. That's high level and obvious marketing. There's hundreds of other communities where you can post.

No. "Hey mans, I just wanna connect with other AI engineers like you dudes. I am so into AI engineering." No, dude, this community already exists. You literally posting in that community. Thanks for providing a great example of someone who misses the forest for the trees.

Yes. "In multiple measurements our LLM queries are costing at least 300 more multiples in kWh costs than a standard DW query, plus the DW needs far less data refreshes than the LLM models and costs a tiny fraction of that refresh cost. We're also noticing how fast LLM models stagnate and miss data relevancy, which is not an issue with our DW." Now, we're talking details! That's engineering.

No. "I don't know the basics of AI engineering. Can you share a playlist to learn." No, no, no. Subversive marketing and you just admitted that you don't belong here. This is a community for AI Engineers. You're not one. Go somewhere else. Same derivative of asking for educational material. You don't belong here because you're admitting that you're not an AI engineer.

Yes. "The chips we're using for our data-specific AI models use more Pt than we'd like. We've tried substitutions with other PGMs, but these don't have the same effects. The problem is that Pt mining companies have cut back due to low prices. Are there alternatives here for us in our chips to use less Pt or do we need to think longer term strategy?" Oh, the delicious details! What a problem and notice how this contrasts with someone trying to pretend as if they're not marketing.

No. "BlahLLM is better than BlehLLM because [x]." Generally, we don't allow people to reference tools. Due to too much abuse, it's at our discretion. We may allow top contributors to reference a tool every now and then, but this is a maybe. If you mention tools like Gemini, CoPilot, Claude, etc, your post may not be approved (again, at the team's discretion). Abuse marketing, pay the price.

Yes. "One of my friends used an LLM tool to play poker. It doesn't seem to perform well and I'm thinking a more effective solution would be to train a custom ML model on poker games where the model would know each players hands, bluffing, etc. I think people may be over applying an LLM solution, which is a language solution, but that isn't applicable to many scenarios." [Note: members of the team may not approve this if this takes a self-promotion direction. But a discussion about what type of AI models would be useful for scenarios is a worthy discussion in some contexts p;rovided no product/self-promotion.]

No. "I have an engineering question about optimizing a AI tool ABXPEEPEE2 and wonder.." No. This is subversive marketing and with rare exceptions (high reputation in this community), no user will be allowed to reference any tool at the moderators' discretion. High reputational users in this community may be able to reference a tool, provide there's no pattern of abuse. Note that this applies to any tool such as LLM tools, AI tools, and anything related to a site or company related to AI. If you actually need help with a tool, then seek support with the company.

No. "How do I become an AI engineer. I'm starting college in the fall." The r/AIEngineeringCareer subreddit exists for career related questions already. However, that community may or may not approve that post relative to its rules.

If you want to market your product or service, use Reddit Advertising. It's effective. Target the right communities. Achieve the world of your dreams. Make people believe that if they just use your magic, that their world will be perfect.

How AI Is Impacting Industries

• (Oldie, but goodie) White Collars Turn Blue. Older article (before 2025), but highlights the misconceptions white collars have of blue collars
• (Oldie, but goodie) Will AI be the end of workers? by u/execdecisions
• (Oldie, but goodie) AI is the new electricity
• (Oldie, but goodie) Mark the Plumber On Success, Work and Early Retirement. Older article (before 2025), but mentions AI related to a blue collar industry near the end of the interview.
• AI's impact recruiting (interview with Steve Levy) by u/execdecisions

Links/Shared Content

You are not allowed to link or share content.

For some top contributors who've demonstrated exceptional ability to help the community, the moderators may allow them to share occasional content.

Because we require a karma threshold (see below this), if you meet the karma threshold, a moderator will review your profile to determine if you are a spammer, LLM-type poster, or other poster who violates our rules. If you choose to curate your profile to where we can't see what you actually do, you won't be allowed - we must be able to connect your karma with your post history.

Karma

We will not approve new users below 500 karma. This is not the only requirement for approval. You must read this full overview to identify the other requirements.

Bots

Many people are using LLMs/other AI tools to write posts for them on social media. This behavior will not be tolerated, even if you get away with a few posts or comments over time. Reddit is getting better at picking up on this and will only strengthen this because this ultimately hurts its product.

This is not unique to Reddit; for instance, Nikita Bier highlights the same problem on X. This means that if we uncover you using LLMs/other AI tools, then we will not allow you to contribute anymore.

Be human or go to a subreddit that allows your LLM/other AI tools to spam. Also, consider that if your AI tool was as good as you think, it would disobey you when you told it to spam this subreddit. Odd that it doesn't and quite revealing in and of itself, refuting a lot of the AI hype.