Top 5 AI Engineering Trends of 2024 – The New Stack
December 17, 2024
This time last year, I wrote that AI engineering in 2023 was defined by a proliferation of LLMs and an expansion of AI dev tooling. In 2024, those trends continued — but also the market for both LLMs and AI development tools matured considerably. This year, AI got integrated into the core tools of developers (IDEs), while new techniques for creating “AI agents” arose in secondary tools like LangChain and LlamaIndex. The types of LLMs available also became more varied, with smaller models and local development capabilities of particular interest to developers.
Let’s take a deeper look at five key AI engineering trends that emerged this year.
For all the hype, one area in which LLMs have had a measurable impact is in software engineering.
Here Richard McManus looks at a number of trends at the intersection of AI and software engineering.
