Career
Last updated on 2025-10-19 (history).
## Websites for company research
Guides on unconventional software development career trajectories:
- https://jacquesmattheij.com/be-consultant/ - Working as independent contractor/consultant.
- https://words.filippo.io/full-time-maintainer/ - Working as full-time open-source maintainer.
- https://news.tonydinh.com/p/my-solopreneur-story-zero-to-45kmo/ - Tony Dinh's solopreneur story.
- https://blog.gregbrockman.com/how-i-became-a-machine-learning-practitioner/ - Learning resources for ML engineer track.
# AI Engineer
This is a term that is being used a bit more nowadays. Trying to document what things are there in this area.
Taken from https://youtu.be/3E_jDJST69s.
## Categories of AI Companies
- AI Product Companies - Using existing models and infra to build a product on top of it.
- AI Infrastructure Companies - Builders of tools needed for model training, like vector database, etc.
- AI Model Companies - Builders of models.