AI Job Skills Bingo

If you want an AI Product Engineering job, you've probably noticed job postings describe skills that sound specific but don't help you figure out what to actually learn. As a beginner, it's dangerously easy to waste time on cool sounding tricks that turn out not to apply to real jobs.

I did the translation work. I read job postings, reverse-engineered the concrete techniques these companies actually use, and found the common patterns. Each square on this bingo card is a high-quality tutorial that teaches broadly useful skills.

Have you felt most AI tutorials are useless? You look at them and think "I could learn how to do what that person did, but why would I?" A lot of them are just parlor tricks, like training a model to talk like a pirate when you could just prompt it to do the same thing.

I looked for tutorials where the business connection is obvious. When you show business leaders what you built, they'll immediately see how it applies to their problems without you having to explain it. The business value is so clear that even skeptical engineers will nod and say 'yeah, that's useful.' You won't need to translate what you did into business terms.

I also made sure these don't require tons of data cleaning or expensive servers. Everything costs under $50. More importantly, I looked for tutorials with clear stopping points that break into 2-hour chunks. You can work on these before or after work and actually see intermediate results instead of wondering if you're wasting your time.

The idea is just to start building stuff. After doing this for a while, you'll know enough to figure out what specific skills you need for whatever job you want.

How it works: If you've already done something similar, mark it off. If not, just pick one and work through it.