A practical, beginner-friendly roadmap to becoming an AI Engineer. Learn the skills in the right order, from programming fundamentals and LLM APIs to RAG, AI agents, production infrastructure, evaluation, security, and local inference. Every step includes exactly what to learn so you can go from writing your first Python script to building and deploying production-ready AI systems. Designed for students, developers, and anyone who wants to build real AI products instead of just experimenting with models.