Want something to talk about in an AI engineering interview that edges out the competition? Build a real portfolio. Not tutorial clones, but real projects that solve real problems and prove you can ship end to end. That could be a RAG chatbot on a specific domain, deployed to a website and running on real data.
An AI agent with real tools that can actually go do things. A semantic search system over a real dataset. The point is to build something that's a solid software engineering project first, with the AI layer on top. Keep a clean repo, deploy it, and monitor it.
That's what gives you real substance to talk about when you're in the room.
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