A concise curriculum for Applied AI in 2025

A distilled and sequenced 50 resources out of 500+ to help senior engineers learn Applied AI quickly.

You are a senior engineer and need a smart and concise learning guide to Applied AI? I have curated and sequenced these 50 resources out of 500+.

Everyone's cat is vibe coding nowadays. AI is reaching everywhere and equalizing everyone.

You need to (not only learn, but actually) practice Applied AI.

Applied AI is about building real-world applications with AI and it is going to touch everyone, e.g., backend, frontend, mobile, DevOps engineers.

It is not about primarily training/fine-tuning models or knowing maths and how matrix multiplications work. It is mostly about “actually” using/building the APIs and SDKs that enable great AI use-cases.

I have curated 50 resources and distilled them into a concise curriculum for any uninitiated developer. In this case, less is more—you do not want to drown in a sea of resources.

I did not include 500+ other resources I read, because it will not help you get started.

I have shared this exact curriculum with my engineers.

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