How to pivot to a Machine Learning engineer? 07/03/2024 How to pivot to a Machine Learning engineer? https://news.hada.io/topic?id=15646&utm_source=slack&utm_medium=bot&utm_campaign=T1JAW8ST1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40797858 I would recommend understanding the ML algos at least on a conceptual level. And to use them "raw". It's nowadays quite straightforward with e.g. the transformers-library. It's "wise" if you find during your personal hours you are enjoying hacking on it. Before I made the switch, I spent a year studying the material on nights and weekends so that was m my first data point that perhaps this is something I wanted to do full time. I transitioned to this in 2018. It was called MLOps. I was a mobile developer before that. Transitioning was pretty easy at that time (it might be more competitive now) Linear Algebra 101 for AI/ML - Part 1 includes interactive quizzes, fundamentals of vectors/matrices, and a quick intro to PyTorch, an open source ML framework widely used in industry.