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These are my notes to Matt Pococks aihero.dev course "ai engineer roadmap" https://www.aihero.dev/ai-engineer-roadmap What is An AI Engineer Matt said his course is partly based on article from Latent Space: "The rise of the ai engineer" " An AI Engineer is a software developer who builds applications powered by AI" An AI Engineer needs strong software engineering fundamentals ability to build reliable scaleable applications knows modern AI tools and frameworks focuses on user experience and applications AI Engineers - use models, use prompt engineering, pipelines/chains, optimize cost/speed/performance, infra, evaluate systems. Different to an ML engineer who: build and train models, heavy math, phd level skills Yes, web developers can become AI Engineers. And Typescript is growing fast and makes a great fit for AI systems (well Matt would say that, wouldn't he!..but I do think it's true) What can you use LLMs for? 1. Converting unstructured to st...

TDD, AI Agents and coding with Kent Beck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSXaxOdVtAQ This podcast was really fun to learn from and I recommend. Kent is famous in the programming world, so his take on AI is worth learning from. Kent says he's spending 6-10 hours a day programming and in 50 years of programming it's the most fun he's had, "its a blast". Kents using agentic tools where it generates a bunch of code from a single prompt. Kent says nobody knows what works so try it all. So we should be experimenting.  Kents tried a number of different languages as he's experimented. Kent thinks of AI as an "unpredictable genie". Its a genie in that "it grants wishes and you wish for something and you get it, but it's not what you actually wanted: it volunteers features, doesn't care about design, willing to cheat (delete/modify tests) there can be some good things with this, but some bad I love this metaphor. I have experienced these aspects o...