Skills · 3 min read
How I'd become an AI engineer before 2027 (all free)
A 3-step roadmap with every free resource.
Usman · updated September 2026keyword: AIENG- Fundamentals: Andrej Karpathy “Neural Networks: Zero to Hero” (YouTube) + 3Blue1Brown “Neural Networks” (YouTube).
- Core concepts: LangChain “RAG from Scratch” playlist (YouTube) → LangGraph → Hugging Face Agents course (huggingface.co/learn).
- Build: 2–3 real projects, wrap in FastAPI (fastapi.tiangolo.com), Dockerize (docs.docker.com/get-started), deploy (Railway / Render / Fly.io free tiers). No bootcamp needed. Certificates don’t get hired — deployed projects do. (Confirm each playlist is live the day you start.)