As an AI Engineer. Please learn:

  • Harness engineering, not just prompt engineering

  • Prompt caching vs. semantic caching tradeoffs

  • KV cache management at scale

  • Speculative decoding vs quantization

  • Structured output failures & fallback chains

  • Evals (LLM-as-judge + human evals)

  • Cost attribution per feature, not just per model

  • Agent guardrails & loop budgets

  • LLM observability as a first-class discipline

  • Model routing & graceful fallback logic

  • Knowing when to fine-tune vs. in-context learning