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  "path": "/t/we-all-start-somewhere/177233#post_5",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-30T10:00:30.000Z",
  "site": "https://discuss.huggingface.co",
  "textContent": "With your experience, you’re already coming from the right direction. I’d treat AI like another engineering layer rather than just a collection of tools.\n\nStart with local models, RAG, embeddings, and evaluation. Build practical things like a private coding assistant or a knowledge base over your own projects. Fine-tuning can come later once you understand where prompting and retrieval stop being enough.\n\nThe field is moving quickly, but solid software engineering skills are still the foundation.",
  "title": "We all start somewhere"
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