Backend SWE eyeing AI engineer roles: interviews favor RAG and agents over fine-tuning
Witty_Dot9084 · reddit · 2026-10-14
A backend engineer with 3.5 years' experience asks what AI engineer interviews actually test, citing a senior engineer's claim that companies focus on LLM applications — RAG, agents, feedback loops — rather than fine-tuning, quantization, or model training. The thread probes how much ML fundamentals versus practical LLM/agent work is expected.
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