Ten-year ML veteran seeks advice on catching up with LLM market

franbetteo · x · 2026-09-01

An engineer with a decade of traditional DS/ML experience (XGBoost, KMeans, Bayesian, etc.) asks for advice on updating their skills for the current job market. They propose building a RAG application using local docs and YouTube transcripts with Llama Index, FAISS, and OpenAI API. This reflects the common transition path from traditional ML stacks to modern AI engineering.

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