'You don't need math to be an AI engineer': a 6-step hiring playbook goes viral
ashishllm · x · 2026-09-13
- ashishllm lays out steps to become a hirable AI engineer: engineers rarely write equations and only need to understand the math, which can be worked through with ChatGPT; deep math is for researchers, not engineers shipping LLM models to production.
- On the engineering side: one solid portfolio project you can discuss in depth is enough; start implementing and go top-down-depth instead of bottom-up theory-first.
- The thread quotes trikcode's claim that now is the perfect time to become a data scientist, data engineer, ML or AI engineer.
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