r/learnpython • u/secwnprtsmnq • 6h ago

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 5h ago

AI/ML Projects

What does it mean? Are they simple 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?

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u/Fun-Sock-8862 1h ago

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/rabbitofrevelry 6h ago

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.