Like a racing driver, I’ve become expert at using the tool. I have opinions about driving it well, I write about what I’ve figured out from actually shipping things with it. That’s the whole pitch.
But I leave the engineering to someone else. Don’t call me a mechanic when all I do is sit behind the wheel and press on the gas. I can’t predict what the next model will do. I don’t sell courses. If you want guru content, there’s plenty of it.
And, if you’re professing to be an AI specialist and crooning about “what I learnt today”, maybe downgrade your title or think more carefully before you pick up a microphone.
Addendum.
None of that means the title doesn’t exist. It means it has to be earned, and I work with someone who has earned it. Alex has a First Class in Computer Science specialising in AI and robotics, an MSc in Artificial Intelligence, and years of building recommendation engines, computer vision and NLP that run in production rather than in a talk.
That’s what Alex is. He’s the mechanic. He can tell you why the engine behaves the way it does; I can only tell you how it feels to drive. Both are worth paying for. Only one of them is me.