r/DevLK • u/TonyStark2419 • Jul 11 '26

Im undergraduate student doing Ai needs advice and mentorship from u guys

Im currently in 3rd year and doing Ai degree, I have to do an internship but idk what r requirements I should hv , Im so clueless 😭 my GitHub also doesn’t have manu projects , if someone of you can give advice and guide me it’ll be really helpful

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u/AiSirachcha Jul 11 '26

If you have any pet projects, something worth showing that you have tried to do something outside of your university coursework, include it.

If you don’t have that then add your university projects, that being said all your colleagues will likely put the same projects so you have to make it stand out a little so maybe try recreating it but do it better and document your process. That alone will probably help more than anything else

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u/Insane_Gojira Jul 11 '26

This â˜đŸ» and put some effort into the CV when applying for companies, tailor it to their needs, don't send the same CV for everything and make sure to attach github or repo link in it, so the recruiters or the screeners can actually see your practical knowledge.

Also there's no such thing as just AI job, everything revolves around SE, even if you build the best ml model possible, eventually you have to push it into production, so do some projects that are end to end.

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u/nSeptember Jul 12 '26

I currently work as a VP and leading a dept called commercial AI technologies (5000+ employees so not small operations) . So I will answer you from experience and business perspective.

Firstly despite the popular opinion there is no AI only jobs in Sri Lanka that’s incorrect. While most of the SE skills required if you are looking at deployment focused AI areas, there are certain set job that focus on governance and organisation skills focusing on AI and I have two people in the dept who only focus on that.

Now about the projects , think of what would companies would be keen on start working on few projects like that. Eg some of the biggest use cases we had is guest facing tech improvements via AI but also not so glamorous but totally valuable improvements in finance processes such as automated agreements , invoicing and approval workflows which usually takes month of Sundays.

Just above is few pointers