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Lmao..I find it hilarious when people say things like this. It really is not as simple as “learning” a programming language. What type of technical roles are you even targeting? Data engineering, Data science, AI engineering, tech consultant, data strategy consultant, ai consultant??? All of them are adjacent to AI.
My advice..understand what you are actually talking about.
No sir..I build ai tools daily. Unless you are referring to building agents ..which is not the same as building end to end AI enabled workflows or applications. IT IS NOT AS SIMPLE AS learning a programming language.
Go back to school to study CS or data science depending on what you want to do.
Data engineering or AI engineer: Go study CS to learn software engineering, design patterns, data structures and algorithms, OOP , RAG pipeline etc..there is a lot to learn. You can try on your own but honestly just go back. This is what I did and I didn’t realize the gaps prior were huge
Data science: MS in data science should be fine but this will focus on how to utilize predictive models not how to to build end to end tools. You could learn this on your own honestly.
Tech consultant: you are not building anything. No need to learn a programming languages. Focus on understanding big picture concepts.
Claude
Yeah definitely didn’t know about this
Start with Python see if you like it first
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Python is easy to learn, and a gateway for a lot of AI implementations. With tools like Claude, you learn how to solve problems by reviewing the generated solutions to understand the underlying logic.
Focus on understanding WHY it works.
Your skills as a non-technical consultant enable you translate business needs into requirements - which can position you into a lot better of a role.
As others have said, Python is the easy answer. But if you actually understand what an LLM is and the basics of ML models at more than a surface level, then you’ll be ahead of most people in “AI consulting”, so I would start there.
Python. All the AI courses in Coursera, Udemy, AWS and educational institutions use Python. Most of the examples you find will use Python. The book Python Crash Course by Eric Matthes will get you started. Github is https://github.com/ehmatthes/pcc_3e. You don't need to be a "python expert" .