--- title: "AI engineering requires no academia or ML – just problem-solving" url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-engineering-requires-no-academia-or-ml-just-problem-solving-ubj0cwcsm source_url: https://shiftmag.dev/ai-engineering-tejas-kumar-4216/ type: article source: "Community Picks" published: 2024-09-11T12:57:20.677Z updated: 2024-12-11T12:21:42.885Z tags: ["ai", "machine-learning", "privacy", "data-processing"] reading_time: 3 upvotes: 17 comments: 1 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI engineering requires no academia or ML – just problem-solving **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 3 min read · 17 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary AI engineering doesn't require academia or machine learning expertise. Tejas Kumar, an AI DevRel Engineer at DataStax, emphasizes that it involves applying AI to solve problems, often through AI API requests. Key techniques include fine-tuning transfer learning and optimizing model architecture to reduce costs. To mitigate AI hallucinations, Kumar recommends Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and to ensure privacy, running models locally using tools like LLVM or llama.cpp. More insights will be shared at the Shift Conference in Zadar. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@isaacmathew** · 0 upvotes > theoretically, yes, but then again, what is problem-solving is learning developed over time. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#machine-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/machine-learning), [#privacy](https://daily.dev/tags/privacy), [#data-processing](https://daily.dev/tags/data-processing) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-engineering-requires-no-academia-or-ml-just-problem-solving-ubj0cwcsm)