How to Learn AI Engineering in 2026: A Practical Roadmap
A step-by-step roadmap to learn AI engineering: LLM basics, prompting, RAG, agents, evals and production, with free hands-on practice.
Read guideClear, practical explanations of the ideas behind modern AI, each linked to hands-on lessons so you can practice what you read.
A step-by-step roadmap to learn AI engineering: LLM basics, prompting, RAG, agents, evals and production, with free hands-on practice.
Read guideWhat AI engineers do, how the role differs from ML and software engineering, the skills you need, and a realistic path to becoming one.
Read guideRAG explained simply: how retrieval-augmented generation works, why it reduces hallucinations, how to build a RAG pipeline and how to evaluate it.
Read guideA practical prompt engineering guide: clear instructions, few-shot examples, delimiters, output formats, reasoning prompts and testing prompts with evals.
Read guideAI agents explained: the agent loop, tools, workflows vs agents, multi-agent systems, memory, and the guardrails you need before shipping one.
Read guideModel Context Protocol (MCP) explained: hosts, clients and servers, tools, resources and prompts, transports, security, and how to build your first MCP server.
Read guideHow to evaluate LLM applications: building eval datasets, code-based graders, LLM-as-judge, human review, RAG metrics and running evals in CI.
Read guideA beginner-friendly guide to learning AI: what to learn first, the key ideas behind ChatGPT-style models, and free hands-on lessons to start today.
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