Andrew Ng on how anyone can become an AI Engineer

Melvin Vivas · X post · 2026-08-23 · Open on X

Topics: Start Here: Roadmaps & Strategy · Level: beginner

Summary

The creator points out that Andrew Ng published a guide on how anyone can become an AI engineer. This post has no link; the article itself, the AI Engineering Skills Map, is linked in the creator's companion post.

Key points

• Andrew Ng published guidance on how anyone can become an AI engineer.
• The related article is 'AI Engineering Skills Map: Building and Deploying AI Applications'.

Resources mentioned

• Andrew Ng · person · x.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  A leading AI researcher and educator whose view is that more people should learn to code as AI tools improve.
  Also in: Andrew Ng Says Keep Learning to Code, but Learn the Modern Way (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Building Adaptive AI Agents: Skills from Traces and Code Knowledge Graphs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Andrew Ng's AI Engineering Skills Map (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• AI Engineering Skills Map: Building and Deploying AI Applications · article · x.com · free
  Andrew Ng's article mapping the skills needed to build and deploy AI applications as an AI engineer. It's on X, so reading it may need an X account.
  Also in: Andrew Ng's AI Engineering Skills Map (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)

Try this

• Look up Andrew Ng's AI engineering guide.