AI Engineering: A Realistic Roadmap for Beginners

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I read Chip Huyen’s 500-page AI Engineering book and went through all 1,200+ AI and machine learning references so you don’t have to. This video gives you a realistic roadmap for learning AI engineering as a complete beginner, without a PhD in AI.
AI engineering isn’t about training your own giant LLM models from scratch anymore. It’s about understanding foundation models, prompting, retrieval systems, agents, data workflows, and how to actually build AI products that solve real problems. Let's break down what matters in AI engineering, why AI …