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The AI skill tree

Every area of AI builds on the ones before it. Start with the foundations and work up to putting AI to work in a business.

Foundations
How LLMs work: tokens, context
Prompting
Prompts and context design
Providers
Choosing APIs, vendors and costs
Models
Architectures and fine‑tuning
Data
Datasets, cleaning and pipelines
Agents
Tool use, planning and memory
Coding
AI-assisted development
Retrieval
RAG, embeddings and search
Evaluation
Testing and measuring output
Automation
Workflows that run themselves
Engineering
Production AI systems
Safety
Guardrails, security and risk
Business
Strategy, ROI and adoption

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The AI Engineering Series

From your first structured prompt to training your own model: AI Prompt Engineering, Agentic AI Engineering and LLM Systems Engineering, together in one combined edition, AI Engineering.

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