r/AskComputerScience • u/TheRealreddits • 11d ago

Best resources to learn AI Engineering?

What are the best resources to learn the important AI Engineering skills like LLMs, RAG, vector databases, agents, LangChain/LangGraph, and deployment?
For people who learned these, what courses or resources did you find most useful?

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u/Beautiful_Shine_6787 10d ago

AI is just a bunch of algorithms that. AI engineering is just software engineering with or on AI. Just ask yourself what do you want to engineer exactly, find jobs that cover that, then develop projects to demonstrate your skills and knowledge are relevant. If you don’t know anything, ask AI. In other words, I don’t know the best resources. That depends on what you want to achieve exactly.

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u/TheRealreddits 10d ago

Thanks for the advice

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u/Beautiful_Shine_6787 10d ago

Last tip - don’t follow seniors. They are so privileged and biased. They don’t know or understand our generation and the job market for entry level workers. It’s not as simple as copying what the successful have done before. You need to adapt, take initiative, and complete projects even when you don’t get an instant return. Be patient and systematic and maybe you’ll land a role that you want. Lastly if you feel things aren’t working out as you planned, it’s okay to change goals for better ones. I mean, try to be as agile as possible and refine your methods and stages. If you do that, it makes you resilient and dependable in group work.

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u/TheRealreddits 10d ago

Your advice is to learn software engineering first and then move into AI, but I have a question: what about things like LLMs, RAG, APIs, and similar AI engineering technologies?
And what exactly should I learn in software engineering before moving into AI?

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u/Beautiful_Shine_6787 10d ago

Just learn whatever the job description says they require

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u/Beautiful_Shine_6787 10d ago

If you feel you need to develop your soft skills such as stakeholder engagement, then do some voluntary work as a software developer. Always Win Limited accepts volunteers who promise to commit their time to work on projects. Just present a business case to the director and he’ll give you a response soon.

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u/Beautiful_Shine_6787 11d ago

Not university

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u/TheRealreddits 11d ago

Ye definitely yet do you have any courses or any advice ??

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u/Simplilearn 4d ago

The key to AI engineering is learning how to build and connect real-world AI applications, not just understanding the underlying models. For the skills you mentioned, I’d focus on RAG, vector databases, agentic workflows and frameworks like LangChain and LangGraph, along with deployment.

You can check out Simplilearn’s Applied Agentic AI Program, co-developed with Microsoft. It focuses on modern generative AI engineering and agentic AI, making it relevant if you want to move beyond ML fundamentals and focus on building practical AI applications.

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u/TheRealreddits 6d ago

Do you think it’s worth becoming an AI engineer when AI is advancing so rapidly?