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AI Engineering
Start here: build, test and run an app around an AI model.
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AI engineering for software engineers.
You already build software. An AI model is a new kind of building block: powerful, but it can answer differently each time. This path teaches you to build with it the way you build everything else: tested, measured and released.
What changes
What stays the same, and what is new.
| Compare | Software you know | Software with an AI model |
|---|---|---|
| Testing | Checks that pass or fail | Test sets and scores that move |
| Debugging | Error messages | Reading answers and finding the pattern in the mistakes |
| Building blocks | Libraries that always behave the same | Models that change with each version |
| Running cost | Mostly fixed | You pay for every request to the model |
| What stays | Version control, APIs, deployment, code review | All of it |
- Testing
- Checks that pass or fail
- Debugging
- Error messages
- Building blocks
- Libraries that always behave the same
- Running cost
- Mostly fixed
- What stays
- Version control, APIs, deployment, code review
Can software engineers transition into AI engineering?
Yes, and they start ahead. AI engineering is mostly software engineering with an AI model in the middle. You already know version control, testing, APIs and deployment. You add three things: how models behave, how to test answers that change, and how to keep every request fast. The quickest way to learn is to build one app from start to finish.
Where to start
Three programs, in the usual order.
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AI and Machine Learning
Take this first only if you want to learn how models work inside.
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Forward Deployed Engineer
Later, to make those apps work at customers.
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Time and format.
- Format
- Online and classroom
- Duration
- 1 to 6 months, depending on the program
- Start dates
- New batches start through the year. You get the next date when you apply.
Questions
No. You need to write and release working code. AI Engineering teaches what you need about models as you use them.
Python is used throughout. If you work in another language, the ideas carry over.
Only if you want to learn how models work inside before you build with them. Many software engineers start with AI Engineering and learn the rest later.
New batches start through the year. Apply and we send you the next start date for your program.