Can We Talk About the "AI/ML Engineer" Shortcut for a Second?

Short summary

Production ML requires solid software engineering fundamentals—data pipelines, backend systems, and cloud infrastructure can't be shortcuts. Learn real engineering first, then ML, not the reverse.

• •ML shortcuts don't exist—production requires backend engineering, data pipelines, system architecture
• •Prompt engineering is good for prototyping but production ML needs foundational CS knowledge
• •Focus on learning solid software engineering fundamentals first, then specialize in ML

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