https://coreydaley.dev/tags/machine-learning/Recent content in Machine-Learning on Corey DaleyHugoen-usThu, 16 Apr 2026 18:35:00 -0400https://coreydaley.dev/posts/2026/04/12-month-ai-ml-learning-roadmap/Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:35:00 -0400https://coreydaley.dev/posts/2026/04/12-month-ai-ml-learning-roadmap/<p>Every senior engineer I know has a version of the same conversation with themselves: &ldquo;I should really learn more about ML.&rdquo; It comes up during a planning meeting when someone mentions embeddings. It comes up when a job description at an interesting company lists MLOps as a requirement. Then the sprint board calls it back.</p> <p>I&rsquo;ve published a 12-month AI/ML learning roadmap designed specifically for experienced software engineers — not a beginner tutorial, but a structured path from ML foundations through LLMs and generative AI, ML engineering at scale, and a capstone that turns a year of steady work into visible career leverage. The core idea: AI/ML becomes career-changing when it compounds through one sustained body of work, not when it&rsquo;s consumed as scattered content.</p> <p>If you&rsquo;ve been sitting on the feeling that you should be doing something about this — most of the resources are free, the rest are investments worth making, and the plan is already written.</p> <p>Read more at <a href="https://coreydaley.dev/posts/2026/04/12-month-ai-ml-learning-roadmap/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://coreydaley.dev/posts/2026/04/12-month-ai-ml-learning-roadmap/</a> </p>https://coreydaley.dev/posts/2026/02/how-llms-work-sausage-making/Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:00:00 -0500https://coreydaley.dev/posts/2026/02/how-llms-work-sausage-making/<p>There&rsquo;s a moment every developer eventually hits when they stop treating AI as a magic oracle and start asking: okay, but how does it actually work? It&rsquo;s the technology equivalent of learning Santa isn&rsquo;t real. A little wonder leaves the room, but something better moves in: understanding.</p> <p>And understanding turns out to be a surprisingly effective antidote to the kind of fear that has people picturing Skynet every time a chatbot gives a confident answer. So let&rsquo;s look inside the machine — and maybe, along the way, inside ourselves.</p> <p>What do you think when you finally see how the sausage gets made?</p> <p>Read more at <a href="https://coreydaley.dev/posts/2026/02/how-llms-work-sausage-making/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://coreydaley.dev/posts/2026/02/how-llms-work-sausage-making/</a> </p>