Every course shows you the happy path: prompt > response > ship it > congratulations, you’re an AI engineer now.

Short summary

Most AI courses present an oversimplified "happy path" from prompt to shipping that glosses over real production complexity. The piece critiques the gap between course-taught AI workflows and what actually works at scale.

• •AI courses reduce workflows to idealized sequences that don't match production reality
• •Real AI engineering involves complexity, debugging, and iteration courses skip
• •Gap between taught patterns and deployed systems creates unprepared engineers

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