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From Developer to
job-ready AI Engineer
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"The AI Engineer will likely be the highest-demand engineering job of the decade."
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AI Engineering Fundamentals: Build Real LLM Apps in Python

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Become a job-ready AI Engineer with the OpenAI API, Prompt Engineering, Structured Outputs & real Portfolio Projects.

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Meet your instructor.

Lukas Lechner

I'm Lukas Lechner— an AI Engineer and Educator. I've already spent a decade shipping software and teaching more than 12,000+ engineers. Now I focus on building applications on top of LLMs, and I teach what I wish I'd had: a pragmatic, no-hype path from Developer to job-ready AI Engineer.

RoleAI Engineer · Educator · FounderBased inAustria 🇦🇹FocusFundamentals over hype · quality over quantityKPIDevelopers transformed into AI Engineers