Good lord, AI engineers get paid a median salary of $243,500, while non-AI engineers only get paid a median of $166,750, how can it be so much more? Is it because AI jobs are more concentrated in big tech?
Oh, and you need to be able to do all the above _quickly_.
What's nice about it versus SWE is that you can totally ship hot garbage, doesn't have to be optimal at all, just "fast enough" and cheap enough.