u/michaelnovati replied ·
I'm working in this space right now and my team is trying to figure out the answer to your question too haha.
AI/ML isn't one concept to go to a boot camp for or not.
We're seeing people just a little lost using AI tools that do indeed want to go to a gen AI tools program or course of some kind.
We're seeing people who are busy on the job at companies not quite at the AI forefront who just want a little supplement.
However, what you are talking about isn't that. You are talking about masters or PhD level ML. Look into doing a part time ML masters at a top 5 CS school.
Second, FAANG is hiring all the best people for millions of dollars so if you are working literally at Meta or Google, look inside for your training..Go to workshops from these people, and do internal courses.
For example when mobile became a thing Meta trained people in iOS and that was better than anything on the outside.
Finally, traditional SWE bootcamps are in a tough place right and I would avoid them pivoting to AI. The bootcamp model was all lipstick on a pig to hustle into a job if you have no experience and a lot of ambition. Those companies are trying to pivot to AI but there aren't canonical AI jobs yet and AI interview processes and it's hard to teach people how to hustle into those jobs... and it's even harder to pivot their mindset to offer actually good materials (because the focus was appearances and not substance)