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Oracle's AI Director Laid Out The GenAI Learning Path.
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Hello Reader, Recently, I sat down with Richmond Alake - Director of AI Developer Experience at Oracle. And for sure, I'm going to borrow those concepts and apply them in my own teaching during SA Bootcamp. Richmond laid out a learning progression that most engineers are studying in the wrong order: Most people jump straight to building agents or vibe coding. That's backwards. He also gave a one-sentence test to check if your agent is actually well-built. Other things we got into: → The real answer to the files vs. database debate for agent memory. Files are great for getting started. At production scale, you need a database. But there is a way to get both. → How much of his code AI writes now. At the start of the year he was writing about 70% manually. Now it is down to 30-40%. But there is a catch - he says he works MORE hours now, not fewer. The possibilities are endless and it is too easy to overengineer. → Whether AI will actually take dev and cloud jobs. His honest take: job displacement at best, not job loss. Every revolution creates more work. And Richmond is living proof - his output went up, but so did his hours. If you are trying to figure out where to invest your GenAI learning - for interviews, for career growth, for building things that work in production - this conversation gives you the roadmap in order. Watch it here: Context Engineering, Agent Memory & AI Jobs | Richmond Alake Keep learning and keep rocking 🚀, Raj P.S. If you have found this newsletter helpful, and want to dive deeper... Everything I teach on AWS, System Design, Kubernetes, and DevOps - all in one Skool classroom. Build the technical depth at your own pace, and get every new course I release: Join Here 🎥 Free tutorials on Cloud Gen AI + interview prep on my YouTube channel: Here 🚀 The SA Bootcamp is the full transformation - hands-on practice through Cloud Colosseum, interview prep, mock interviews, and resume reviews, and so much more... Join the waitlist to be first in when the next cohort opens. |
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Free Cloud Interview Guide to crush your next interview. Plus, real-world answers for cloud interviews, and system design from a top AWS Solutions Architect.
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