{"slug": "getting-into-ai-engineering-what-should-i-learn-first", "title": "Getting Into AI Engineering: What Should I Learn First?", "summary": "A beginner developer has asked the AI engineering community for guidance on what to learn first, noting confusion over whether RAG, LoRA, fine-tuning, and LLMs represent the core of the field or just parts of a larger discipline. The developer, who is also studying C++, C, Assembly, and PostgreSQL, asked whether to focus on AI, go deeper into low-level development, or combine both given how fast the field is moving.", "body_md": "Hey everyone, I’m still a beginner and I just joined the community.\n\nI’ve been trying to learn more about AI engineering, but I’m still a little confused about what the field actually covers. I keep seeing things like RAG, LoRA, fine-tuning, LLMs, and so on. Are those basically the main areas of AI engineering, or are they just parts of a much bigger field?\n\nI figured I’d ask before I go too deep, so I’d appreciate any advice on what’s actually worth learning first.\n\nI’m also really into low-level development, which is why I’ve been learning C++, C, and Assembly. I mess around with PostgreSQL sometimes too.\n\nWith AI moving so fast right now, would you recommend focusing more on AI, going deeper into low-level development, or trying to combine both?\n\nI’m still figuring out what direction I want to take, so I’d love to hear how other developers approached it when they were starting out.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/getting-into-ai-engineering-what-should-i-learn-first", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/rinxgod/trying-to-figure-out-ai-engineering-2ok8", "published_at": "2026-09-10 04:00:52+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-10 04:20:24.234864+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-research", "developer-tools"], "entities": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/getting-into-ai-engineering-what-should-i-learn-first", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/getting-into-ai-engineering-what-should-i-learn-first.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/getting-into-ai-engineering-what-should-i-learn-first.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/getting-into-ai-engineering-what-should-i-learn-first.jsonld"}}