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Career

Less technical, more strategic. Where AI engineering is going, what to build to get hired, how to stay current. People who build, write, and ship in public have radically different trajectories than those who only read.

3 articles

15 min to read

6 books

if you only do one thing

Ship something with your name on it. The technical content from Stages 1–14 is necessary but not sufficient; public output is the multiplier.

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Stage 15 — Engineering & Career

Less technical, more strategic. Where AI engineering as a profession is going, what to build to get hired, and how to stay current in a field that moves every week.

Articles

AI engineer roles — applied, research, infra, product
Learning roadmap — what to build to get hired
Staying current — feeds, papers, communities

MVU

You can:

Articulate what kind of AI work you want to do
Identify a 90-day project that demonstrates that role
Stay updated on the field without drowning in noise

Exercise

Ship something — a side project, a blog post, a fine-tuned model on HuggingFace, a contribution to an open-source agent. Anything public, with your name on it.

Why this stage matters

The technical content of Stages 1–14 is necessary but not sufficient. People who build, write, and ship in public have radically different career trajectories than those who only read.