Course with Darius
Darius — Become an AI Engineer Without a Degree
How to become an AI engineer without a CS degree, sequenced 1:1 by someone who hires without looking at degrees. Six modules from model APIs to evals and latency, each ending in a shipped repo, until you can defend three portfolio projects on eval numbers.
What you’ll master — Outcomes you can use
- The 2026 AI engineer skill set and three portfolio projects that get past the no-degree filter
- I can defend all three projects on eval numbers, not vibes
Your tutor
An AI engineer who hires without looking at degrees and rejects portfolios that wrap one API call.
Direct · Unimpressed by hype · Generous with sequencing
The plan — What’s inside
- Model APIs And Cost
- Retrieval That Actually Retrieves
- Agents And Tool Calling
- Evals Before Features
- Deployment And Latency
- The Portfolio Defence
6 parts
Questions about this course
Can I become an AI engineer without a computer science degree in 2026?
How to become an AI engineer without a CS degree, sequenced 1:1 by someone who hires without looking at degrees. Six modules from model APIs to evals and latency, each ending in a shipped repo, until you can defend three portfolio projects on eval numbers.