The 17-skill AI engineer checklist for 2026 — obsolete half by the time you finish
JafarNajafov · x · 2026-10-27
Completing his own blank-line meme, JafarNajafov lists the 2026 AI engineer stack: Python, prompt/context engineering, embeddings, vector databases, RAG, fine-tuning, LoRA, quantization, evals, guardrails, MCP, tool calling, agents, multi-agent orchestration, observability, inference costs—and notes that by the time you finish, a new model makes half of it obsolete.
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