resources

AI Engineer — resources

roadmap.sh: https://roadmap.sh/ai-engineer

Docs & primers

• Anthropic docs — Messages API, tool use, prompt caching, agents.
• OpenAI docs — Responses/Chat API, embeddings, function calling.
• Hugging Face — LLM course — transformers, fine-tuning, RAG.
• Model Context Protocol (MCP) — spec + SDKs for agent tooling.

Books / practice

• Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) (Raschka) — how LLMs actually work.
• AI Engineering (Chip Huyen) — building applications on foundation models.
• Drill the loop: pick a node → write a notes/ file → build a tiny thing in playgrounds/python/ → tick the box.