FIELD NOTES / APPLIED AI
six-month view
A proof-oriented learning route
Build the AI engineer foundations that ship.
The supplied outline starts with production APIs, then moves into LLM fundamentals. Use this brief to choose the current frontier and define what you will prove next.
Choose your current stage
current focus
Production APIs
Make a reliable service boundary: handle requests asynchronously, expose clear REST or GraphQL surfaces, recover from errors, receive webhooks, and integrate SDKs.
FastAPIasyncwebhooksREST / GraphQL
Source boundary: the post names the first two stages but truncates after “embeddings.” This brief does not infer the remaining four months.