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AI career paths
Pick the kind of work you'd like to do, then read its guides in order: what the job is, how people get in, and what interviews ask.
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12-guide path
Forward Deployed Engineer
Work with a customer, find out what is actually stuck, and build the software that makes their workflow run.
10-guide path
AI Engineer
Build useful software on top of AI models, then find out where it gets things wrong and fix it.
10-guide path
Agent Engineer
Build AI software that can take actions, with clear limits and a way to recover when something fails.
5-guide path
GTM Engineer
Fix the data and automate the handoffs a sales or marketing team depends on.
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- Career Path Finder
Answer ten questions and get a suggested AI engineering role, with the guides for it.
- AI Engineer: A Practical Career and Portfolio Guide
What AI engineers build, how they check it works, and what to show in a portfolio.
- Agent Engineer: A Practical Career and Portfolio Guide
What agent engineers build, the skills it takes, and a portfolio project you can show.
- GTM Engineer: A Practical Career and Portfolio Guide
How GTM engineers fix the data and automate the handoffs a sales team depends on.
- Forward Deployed Engineer Interview Guide
What FDE interviews test, with practice questions.
- The Forward Deployed Engineering Playbook: Discovery to Production
How FDE teams take a customer project from first call to handoff.
- Forward Deployed Engineer vs Solutions Architect vs Consultant
Three similar-sounding jobs compared, so you can tell which one fits you.
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Build with agents
Start the free agent course at lesson one, then see full agent workflows from start to finish.
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- Build a Ticket Workflow with Signed Delivery and Approval
The course's final project: a support-ticket agent, tested against twelve ways it could go wrong.
- Agent or Workflow?
Score a task to see if it needs a fixed workflow, a workflow with one AI step, or a full agent.
- Coding Agent Cost
Estimate a month of coding-agent API spend and compare it with the subscription price.
- Open-source GTM skills
Agent skills for sales research and outreach that you can read before you install.
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Sources worth following
The accounts, newsletters and blogs worth your time. Every list says when it was last checked.
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- The Best AI YouTube Channels for Education
Channels that build things start to finish, not launch demos.
- Best AI communities
Reddit groups, Discord servers and events, each joined through its official page.
- The Best AI Podcasts for Staying Informed
Long conversations with the people doing the work.
- AI RSS and OPML Pack: Import Six Engineering Feeds
Six checked engineering feeds you can import into your reader in one file.
- AI Engineering Blogs: Systems, Evals and Practical Work
A short reading list for experiments, evaluations and running AI in production.
- AI Agent Repos and Starter Templates: Seven Projects
Starter code for agents, picked by what it's for and how readable it is.
- Companies Hiring Forward-Deployed and GTM Engineers
Who is hiring FDEs and GTM engineers right now, with links to the postings.
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