@DeRonin_: THIS IS HOW YOU WIN AS AN AI ENGINEER IN 2026: > ship one real app per month, ugly counts > master 4 things cold: promp…
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A tweet from @DeRonin_ provides advice for AI engineers in 2026, emphasizing shipping real apps, mastering core skills, using cheap models, deploying widely, open-sourcing projects, and focusing on a single career lane.
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THIS IS HOW YOU WIN AS AN AI ENGINEER IN 2026:
ship one real app per month, ugly counts master 4 things cold: prompts, tool calling, RAG, evals use cheap models first, scale only when you can prove ROI deploy everywhere users can hit it open-source one project this month with a real README own one lane: product, applied ML, or automation
everything else is just credential chasing. this is how you actually get hired and start charging by month 3
stop learning for years without actions, since it doesn’t increase your potential salary
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