Goal path for career switchers and graduates

Get an AI Engineering Job

Python, LLM APIs, RAG and agents, then tests, a portfolio and interview prep. The shortest honest route to an AI engineer role.

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15
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83
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19 h 13 min
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Already know some of this? Start at step 1 (beginner), step 5 (intermediate), step 11 (advanced).

  1. AI Roles

    Track 13: AI Careers and Portfolio, 4 lessons

    1. 1. AI Jobs Explained: AI Engineer vs ML Engineer vs Data Scientist Beginner, 12 min
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    2. 2. Forward Deployed Engineer: The New AI Job Beginner, 8 min
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    3. 3. AI Engineer Roadmap Intermediate, 13 min
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    4. 4. AI Product Manager: Skills and Path Advanced, 11 min
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  2. Setup

    Track 3: Python for AI, From Zero, 6 lessons

    1. 5. Why Python for AI, and What You Need Beginner, 10 min
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    2. 6. Best Laptop for AI: Budget, Mid, Pro (India) Beginner, 10 min
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    3. 7. Install Python and VS Code (Windows, Mac, Linux) Beginner, 12 min
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    4. 8. Virtual Environments and Packages With uv Intermediate, 11 min
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    5. 9. Git and GitHub for AI Projects Intermediate, 13 min
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    6. 10. WSL and Docker Basics for AI Developers Advanced, 13 min
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  3. Python Fundamentals

    Track 3: Python for AI, From Zero, 6 lessons

    1. 11. Variables, Strings, Lists and Dictionaries Beginner, 12 min
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    2. 12. If, Loops and Conditions Beginner, 12 min
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    3. 13. Functions, Modules and Debugging Beginner, 12 min
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    4. 14. Files and Folders With pathlib Intermediate, 11 min
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    5. 15. Type Hints and Pydantic Models Advanced, 12 min
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    6. 16. Async Python for AI Apps Advanced, 13 min
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  4. Data, JSON and APIs

    Track 3: Python for AI, From Zero, 7 lessons

    1. 17. JSON for AI Developers Beginner, 11 min
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    2. 18. Call an API From Python Beginner, 12 min
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    3. 19. Environment Variables and API Keys, Safely Beginner, 10 min
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    4. 20. pandas Basics for AI Work Intermediate, 14 min
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    5. 21. Quick Interfaces: Streamlit and Gradio Intermediate, 12 min
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    6. 22. Build an API With FastAPI Advanced, 14 min
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    7. 23. Testing With pytest Advanced, 12 min
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  5. How AI Apps Work

    Track 4: Working With LLM APIs, 6 lessons

    1. 24. See How Every AI App Works Beginner, 12 min
      On Udemy
    2. 25. Know What Every AI Call Costs Beginner, 12 min
      On Udemy
    3. 26. Control How the AI Answers Intermediate, 12 min
      On Udemy
    4. 27. Get Answers Your App Can Use Intermediate, 12 min
      On Udemy
    5. 28. Let AI Use Real Tools Intermediate, 12 min
      On Udemy
    6. 29. Stop AI Mistakes Reaching Users Advanced, 12 min
      On Udemy

  6. Core API Skills

    Track 4: Working With LLM APIs, 7 lessons

    1. 30. Messages, Roles and Multi-Turn Chat Beginner, 11 min
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    2. 31. Streaming Responses and a ChatGPT-Style UI Intermediate, 11 min
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    3. 32. Tool Calling in Code Intermediate, 14 min
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    4. 33. Structured Output: JSON Schema, Pydantic, Invoice Extractor Intermediate, 13 min
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    5. 34. Measure and Cut Cost and Latency Advanced, 13 min
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    6. 35. Prompt Caching Advanced, 11 min
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    7. 36. Rate Limits, Fallbacks and Portable Code: LiteLLM, OpenRouter Advanced, 11 min
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  7. RAG Concepts

    Track 5: RAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation, 8 lessons

    1. 37. Why AI Can't See Your Files Beginner, 12 min
      On Udemy
    2. 38. RAG in One Picture Beginner, 12 min
      On Udemy
    3. 39. Chunks and Embeddings Beginner, 12 min
      On Udemy
    4. 40. RAG Tutorial for Beginners: Free Python Chatbot Beginner, 15 min
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    5. 41. Searching by Meaning Intermediate, 12 min
      On Udemy
    6. 42. Writing the Answer Intermediate, 12 min
      On Udemy
    7. 43. RAG vs Fine-Tuning vs Long Context (and Cache-Augmented Generation) Intermediate, 12 min
      On Udemy
    8. 44. Making RAG Good Advanced, 12 min
      On Udemy

  8. Ingestion and Chunking

    Track 5: RAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation, 5 lessons

    1. 45. Loading PDFs, Docs and Web Pages Beginner, 11 min
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    2. 46. Chunking Basics: Fixed, Recursive and Structure-Aware Beginner, 10 min
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    3. 47. Hard PDFs: Tables, Scans and OCR Intermediate, 13 min
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    4. 48. Metadata, Filters and Self-Querying Advanced, 11 min
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    5. 49. Semantic and Advanced Chunking: Parent-Document, Contextual, Late Advanced, 14 min
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  9. Embeddings

    Track 5: RAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation, 3 lessons

    1. 50. Embeddings Explained With Code, Free and Local Beginner, 12 min
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    2. 51. Choosing an Embedding Model: Paid vs Open, Multilingual, ColBERT Intermediate, 13 min
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    3. 52. Fine-Tune an Embedding Model on Your Domain Advanced, 14 min
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  10. Agent Foundations

    Track 6: AI Agents, 8 lessons

    1. 53. What Is an AI Agent? Beginner, 12 min
      On Udemy
    2. 54. How an AI Agent Keeps Going Beginner, 12 min
      On Udemy
    3. 55. What Can an AI Agent Touch? Beginner, 12 min
      On Udemy
    4. 56. Does Your AI Agent Remember You? Intermediate, 12 min
      On Udemy
    5. 57. One AI Agent, or a Team? Intermediate, 12 min
      On Udemy
    6. 58. Who Stops an AI Agent? Intermediate, 12 min
      On Udemy
    7. 59. Agent Design Patterns: Chaining, Routing, Parallel, Orchestrator, Evaluator Advanced, 14 min
      On Udemy
    8. 60. Tool Calling Explained (No Code) Beginner, 10 min
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  11. Build an Agent From Scratch

    Track 6: AI Agents, 6 lessons

    1. 61. What an Agent Harness Really Is Beginner, 12 min
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    2. 62. The Agent Loop in 50 Lines Intermediate, 13 min
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    3. 63. Tools and Permissions Intermediate, 13 min
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    4. 64. Context: What the Agent Remembers Intermediate, 13 min
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    5. 65. Plans, To-Do Lists and Sub-Agents Advanced, 13 min
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    6. 66. Safety, Evals, and Rebuilding With an SDK Advanced, 14 min
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  12. Testing and Evals

    Track 9: LLM Engineering and Production, 6 lessons

    1. 67. Why Evals Are the Unit Tests of AI Beginner, 11 min
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    2. 68. Build an Eval Dataset (and Compare Prompts With promptfoo) Intermediate, 12 min
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    3. 69. LLM-as-Judge, Done Right Intermediate, 12 min
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    4. 70. DeepEval Tutorial Intermediate, 13 min
      On Udemy
    5. 71. Regression Gates in CI Advanced, 12 min
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    6. 72. Evaluating Agents End to End Advanced, 13 min
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  13. Ship an AI App

    Track 4: Working With LLM APIs, 5 lessons

    1. 73. Next.js Front End for Your LLM Backend Intermediate, 16 min
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    2. 74. Streaming Chat UI: Tokens, Stop and Retry Intermediate, 15 min
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    3. 75. Add Login and Per-User Limits to Your AI App Intermediate, 15 min
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    4. 76. Deploy Your AI App on Free Tiers, No Card Needed Intermediate, 14 min
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    5. 77. Project: Ship a Public AI Study Helper Intermediate, Project, 40 min
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  14. Portfolio

    Track 13: AI Careers and Portfolio, 3 lessons

    1. 78. What Makes an AI Portfolio Hireable (GitHub, Demos, Open Source) Beginner, 11 min
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    2. 79. 20 AI Portfolio Project Ideas by Role Intermediate, 12 min
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    3. 80. Capstone: Three-Project Portfolio Advanced, Project, 120 min
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  15. Interviews

    Track 13: AI Careers and Portfolio, 3 lessons

    1. 81. AI Job Interviews: What to Expect Beginner, 11 min
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    2. 82. 50 LLM, RAG and Agent Interview Questions Intermediate, 14 min
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    3. 83. AI System Design Interviews and Take-Homes Advanced, 15 min
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