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How to Become an AI Developer in 2025 (Full Guide + Resources)

Oleg Dubovoi on January 19, 2025

Greetings Dev.to community! Artificial Intelligence is everywhere these days. From chatbots to self-driving cars, AI powers some of the coolest te...
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J19Z

So... Forget other programing languages just go with Python 😏🐍

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Anand Prajapati

Right bro..

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shawnshaw

JAX is the next tensorflow, might be mentioned here

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Aaron Saikovski

A couple of points. I would add C# and Semantic Kernel or even AutoGen. Maybe even PydanticAI. Also add some Agentic AI

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Oleg Dubovoi

Share your thoughts! If you want to add something to the article - write in the comments.

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Alfred Ferrari

Perfect!

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Oleg Dubovoi

Thanks!

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Evgenii • Edited

teacher: You need to choose a programming language and learn the basics of it.
also he: C++

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Chan

How many years would this take me to finish as a beginner?

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Micheal Kinney • Edited

It's say ~1 year to be confident if you spent just 15-30 minutes per day on completing challenges, like those through CodeWars, LeetCode, etc. though this is assuming you take it seriously, review other solutions, improving the quality of your code over time, refactor, and etc. This will remove the "daunting" feeling that code gives beginners and it will become second nature. And once you are confident in one, try the same challenge in another language.

And you should utilize w3schools, rather than most people just "Googling" one-off answers or examples, sign up to keep track of progress, then click on HTML to start, click next (do not jump ahead, if each new concept is easy then just do it)... It will step you though the fundamentals of EVERYTHING needed for Computer Science and DevOps, in the order you should learn them in.

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tian

4years

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amirkhalilzain • Edited

For 4 years, how many hours per day should be provided?

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Chan

Lol

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Marcus O'Brien

Is Python really used in production AI systems though ? I understand it's good for fast proof of concepts or experimenting, but when it comes to scaling up to training large systems or live inference etc is it used ? For example processing data in parallel with pythons restrictions on threading compared to c++ or rust or c# etc. or controlling resources if Garbage collection is used in java c# Python etc. I've only seen Python used for small projects and c++ used for production systems. Curious about other people experiences

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Micheal Kinney

For ML yes and many build "production" Web applications, which I believe is the wrong application to use Python for... But look at vLLM for Python as an example, it's the most performant implementation that can run an LLM and that's using Python. And I think what most people write in Python is show because the way they write it.

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SupaNext

Nice!

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Oleg Dubovoi

Thanks!

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Vandana Kannan

Amazing resources! Thank you for this article 😊

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Oleg Dubovoi

Thank you!

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Adams Kaninah

Python language seems to be an all in one solution

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Arif Dzikrullah

For starters yes.

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Ansell Maximilian

Thank you!

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Hello, I hope to translate this article into Chinese and put it on a Chinese website. If there's any reward, I'll give you half of it. Hope to get your reply.

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Oleg Dubovoi

Hello. Popularizing this content would be great! I would appreciate it if you could leave a link to the original article, and my social links (Github, LinkedIn) Thanks!

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john milling

How could I gain information on AI governance?

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rehanahmedch • Edited

You can't as nothing established publicly is available

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Alessandro Rasulo
  1. Learn Programming :O