GitHub Runbook: A 450-Hour Path from Software Dev to AI Systems
kmeanskaran · x · 2026-08-27
Developer Santosh Shinde open-sourced "Ground Truth," a comprehensive runbook for developers transitioning from software engineering to building AI systems.
The roadmap consists of eight chapters and about 450 hours of guided work, covering:
- Foundations: ML prerequisites, data foundations, core ML.
- Deep Learning: Feature engineering, deep learning, language models.
- Engineering: AI Engineering, MLOps, inference engineering.
- Career: Building projects/portfolios and finding work.
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