Want to become an AI engineer in 90 days? Build from these 10 GitHub repos, not courses
mdancho84 · x · 2026-09-19
Matt Dancho says if he had to become an AI engineer in 90 days, he wouldn't start with courses — he'd build projects from 10 GitHub repos. In a thread he walks through repos spanning the full stack AI engineer job descriptions in 2026 keep demanding: RAG, agents, vector databases, evals, and MCP — including curricula, app templates, server indexes, local inference, evaluation frameworks, vector DBs and multi-agent frameworks.
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