Learning Paths

AI Career Roadmaps

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AI Engineer Path

Build production AI applications. From Python fundamentals to deployed LLM systems.

1

Foundations (Weeks 1โ€“4)

Programming + math you'll actually use
Week 1

Python for AI

Variables, loops, functions, classes, virtual environments.

Week 2

Math Essentials

Linear algebra, vectors, matrices, basic calculus, probability โ€” only what you need.

  • 3Blue1Brown โ€” Essence of Linear Algebra (YouTube)
  • Khan Academy โ€” Probability
Week 3

NumPy & Pandas

Data manipulation, vectorized operations, dataframes.

Week 4

Git & Tooling

Git, GitHub, VS Code, Jupyter, command line basics.

2

Machine Learning (Weeks 5โ€“10)

Classical ML before diving into deep learning
Week 5โ€“6

Scikit-learn

Regression, classification, clustering, train/test split, cross-validation.

Week 7โ€“8

Deep Learning Basics

Neural networks from scratch, backpropagation, PyTorch fundamentals.

  • fast.ai practical course
  • Andrej Karpathy โ€” Zero to Hero (YouTube)
Week 9โ€“10

Build 2 Projects

Image classifier (CNN) and text sentiment analyzer (RNN).

3

LLMs & Modern AI (Weeks 11โ€“18)

The skills that actually get you hired in 2025
Week 11โ€“12

Transformers & LLMs

Attention mechanism, transformer architecture, OpenAI API basics.

Week 13โ€“14

Prompt Engineering & RAG

System prompts, chain of thought, retrieval-augmented generation with LangChain or LlamaIndex.

Week 15โ€“16

Local LLMs

Run Gemma, Llama, Mistral with Ollama. Quantization basics.

Week 17โ€“18

Agents & Tool Use

Build agents with LangGraph, CrewAI, or AutoGen. MCP integration.

4

Production & Job Hunt (Weeks 19โ€“24)

Ship, deploy, and land the job
Week 19โ€“20

Deployment

FastAPI + Docker. Deploy to Vercel, Railway, or AWS.

Week 21โ€“22

Capstone Project

Build something real โ€” RAG chatbot for a domain, AI agent that does a useful task, etc.

Week 23โ€“24

Portfolio + Apply

GitHub README, blog post, demo video. Apply to 50+ jobs. Visit our Career page.

LLM Developer Fast Track

For developers who already code. Skip the basics, go straight to building AI apps.

1

Month 1 โ€” APIs & Prompting

OpenAI / Anthropic / Gemini APIs

Authentication, streaming, function calling, structured outputs.

Prompt engineering

System prompts, few-shot, chain of thought, evaluations.

Build: AI-powered CLI tool

2

Month 2 โ€” RAG & Local LLMs

Embeddings + Vector DBs

OpenAI embeddings, Chroma or Pinecone basics.

Build: Chat-with-your-PDF app

Local LLMs with Ollama

Run Gemma, Llama, Mistral. Quantization, GPU vs CPU.

3

Month 3 โ€” Agents & Production

Agent frameworks

LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen. Pick one and ship.

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

Connect agents to your tools and data.

Capstone + deployment

Build, deploy, write about it. Done.

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Data Scientist Path

From statistics to production ML systems.

1

Statistics & Math

Don't skip this โ€” DS interviews live here

Descriptive stats

Mean, median, variance, distributions, correlation.

Inferential stats

Hypothesis testing, p-values, confidence intervals, A/B testing.

Probability

Bayes' theorem, conditional probability, common distributions.

2

Tools & Data Wrangling

SQL

Joins, window functions, CTEs. You'll use this daily.

Pandas + NumPy

DataFrames, groupby, vectorized operations.

Visualization

Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly.

3

Machine Learning + MLOps

Scikit-learn

Linear/logistic regression, trees, ensembles, cross-validation.

Deep learning intro

PyTorch basics, transfer learning.

MLOps

MLflow, model versioning, deployment with FastAPI + Docker.

Prompt Engineer Path

Master the art of getting LLMs to do exactly what you want.

1

Prompting Fundamentals

Zero-shot, few-shot, chain of thought

System prompts vs user prompts

Format control & structured outputs

2

Advanced Techniques

ReAct, Tree of Thoughts

Self-consistency & multi-step reasoning

Tool use, function calling, agents

3

Evaluation & Iteration

Building eval sets

LLM-as-judge patterns

Prompt versioning & A/B testing

ML Researcher Path

For those who want to push the frontier.

1

Deep Math Foundations

Linear algebra (deep)

Eigenvalues, SVD, matrix calculus.

Probability & statistics

Bayesian inference, information theory.

Optimization

Gradient descent variants, convex optimization.

2

Read Papers

Foundational papers

Attention Is All You Need, BERT, GPT, ResNet, AlphaGo.

Stay current

arXiv-sanity, Papers With Code, AK on Twitter.

3

Reproduce + Originate

Implement papers from scratch

Contribute to open source

Publish original work

AI Product Manager Path

Add AI features confidently. No coding required.

1

AI Literacy

What LLMs can and can't do

Hallucinations, context windows, costs

RAG vs fine-tuning vs prompting

2

Product Frameworks

AI feature scoping & success metrics

Eval-driven product development

Cost & latency budgeting

3

Ship

Work with AI engineers effectively

Beta testing AI features safely

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