I Am Tired of Fake AI Expertise

I have spent the last year trying to talk about AI as an engineering discipline. Not AI as a content machine. Not AI as a growth trick. Not AI as a stream of screenshots, prompt hacks, and recycled takes written by the same models people claim to master. I mean AI as systems work. Orchestration. Validation. Data quality. Observability. Evaluation. Failure handling. Context boundaries. Retry policies. Structured outputs. Cost control at the workflow level. Real interfaces between probabilistic components and deterministic software. And honestly, part of the reason I stepped back from that conversation is simple: too much of the public AI discourse is being led by people who do not build real AI systems. They are loud. They are polished. They are confident. They are often rewarded for being confidently wrong. That is the part that disappoints me. The current wave of self proclaimed "AI experts" is flattening a difficult field into a set of cheap slogans. A domain that requires serious ex