2026 AI engineer job descriptions keep asking for the same five skills: RAG, agents, vector DBs, evals, MCP
mdancho84 · x · 2026-09-19
The author notes that AI engineer job descriptions in 2026 keep asking for the same things: RAG, agents, vector databases, evals, and MCP. He uses this to frame an end-to-end AI Agent + Data Science project and a list of GitHub repos for portfolio-building, aimed at people transitioning into AI engineering roles.
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