Re:Ask HN: List of skills to survive the AI tsunami
by fazlerocks on Thursday June 05, 2025 @02:04PM
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Learn prompt engineering and how to effectively use AI coding assistants… that's immediately useful and will save you hours daily.
Vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate) and building RAG systems. Tons of companies need this now and most devs don't know it yet.
Understanding model fine-tuning and when it's worth it vs just better prompting. Also get comfortable with AI ops - monitoring model performance, dealing with hallucinations, cost optimization. The boring stuff that actually matters in production.
And yeah, just stay curious and adaptive. Half the tools we use today didn't exist 18 months ago.
Vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate) and building RAG systems. Tons of companies need this now and most devs don't know it yet.
Understanding model fine-tuning and when it's worth it vs just better prompting. Also get comfortable with AI ops - monitoring model performance, dealing with hallucinations, cost optimization. The boring stuff that actually matters in production.
And yeah, just stay curious and adaptive. Half the tools we use today didn't exist 18 months ago.