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Journal

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Teaching myself to become an AI engineer, in public – the small triumphs, the things I get wrong, and the version with the mess left in. New entry whenever something breaks.

#005 2026.06.05

The bug I couldn't see by looking The tool kept returning the wrong date. I assumed it was being stupid. Turned out it was reading something I couldn't see on the page.

#004 2026.06.04

Deciding what to actually build Choosing the build: a flyer builder for the venue, why I picked it, building it in Node and Apps Script to compare, and why a finished-looking first version didn't convince me this time.

#003 2026.06.03

I did the course I'd have told you to skip My first certificate, Anthropic's AI Fluency course, and why someone who learns by building sat down and did the theory anyway.

#002 2026.05.30

How I'm actually going to do this How I'm actually going to teach myself this: start from the job, learn by building a ladder of small tools, and let the tutor make it harder, not easier.

#001 2026.05.26

Notes on becoming an AI engineer the hard way Why I'm doing this, how a marketer ended up building tools, and the honest rules of the whole project.

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