Skip the degree: a 10-repo GitHub roadmap to land a $200K AI engineer job in 90 days
mdancho84 · x · 2026-10-07
mdancho84 argues that a data scientist targeting a $200K AI engineer role in 90 days should build proof, not get a degree, and lists 10 GitHub repos as a roadmap:
- awesome-llm-apps (106K+ stars): production RAG, agents and multimodal apps
- LangChain: foundational framework used in production by Klarna, Replit, Elastic
- LangGraph: the orchestration layer on senior AI engineer job descriptions
- CrewAI: multi-agent coordination favored by Fortune 500 teams
- Ollama: run open-source LLMs locally to learn how models work
- plus awesome-mcp-se… and more (thread truncated)
Core thesis: a portfolio of working code beats credentials for AI engineering roles.
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