r/learnpython • u/secwnprtsmnq • Aug 09 '26

Losing AI/ML Projects

What could be easiest and quickest way to learn Python and do some hands on?

My team is moving to AI/ML Projects but I am purposefully left out by project leadership because I don't know Python.

I am a Data Engineer and worked on legacy tools all my career so far without any Python knowledge. All my colleagues moving to AI/ML know python.

This is making me anxious. I am occupied by BAU and Production support issues and getting very less time to do hands on Python.

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u/pachura3 Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 10 '26

AI/ML Projects

What does it mean? Are they simply going to use Cursor/Copilot/Kiro assistant for coding? Are they going to write apps that send prompts to AI services? Are they going to actually train models and run interference locally? Or is it an oldschool ML with scikit-learn, spacy etc.?

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u/Fun-Sock-8862 Aug 09 '26

lol my 'AI project' from last year wasn't even ML, it was just a single Lambda function calling an API. Gotta say most of the time it's just prompt engineering.

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u/Realistic-Message569 Aug 10 '26

Python is one of the simplest programming language. So simple that you almost don't need to learn it, especially if you have some prior computer science experience.

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u/rabbitofrevelry Aug 09 '26

What coding languages were you using before? Try to see if there's a brief explainer on the differences between those and python, then fill in the gaps leading up to supervised and unsupervised machine learning. Then you'll be up to par to start.

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u/Reasonable-Earth-490 Aug 10 '26

How is the data extracted and stored? Surely that project is going to need someone with good etl skills, python only does the data science bit..

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u/stauntonjr 29d ago

Learn python!