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AI engineer viewing a roadmap with five stages: Learn, Build, Deploy, Iterate, and Lead.

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How to Become an AI Engineer

The roadmap I actually walked. Sixteen years of shipping software, two years of shipping AI, and everything that broke in front of real users along the way. 7 stages 90-day plan No PhD required AI engineering is not ML Stop treating it like a chatbot Where the intelligence belongs Your

Abstract neural network made of interconnected nodes and lines, representing a locally running AI model.

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We stopped paying per token and put the models on our own machine

One workstation, a stack of open models from Hugging Face, a few hundred lines of Python, and an ngrok tunnel. Here is how Protovate builds and tests AI apps before a single API bill arrives. GPU memory32 GBenough for 7B–13B System RAM128 GBoffload headroom Models pulledText + imageopen weights Shared