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Part V: Recommendations & Roadmap

“You’ve built something that works. Now what? It’s time to choose your path and plan your evolution.”

Part V helps you take a step back and think strategically about your journey in AI/ML. You’ve now built, deployed, and optimized real projects—this section guides you on how to scale your skills, specialize your focus, or pivot toward long-term goals like research, entrepreneurship, or high-performance model training.

Whether you’re a creator, a coder, or a founder—this is your map forward.

✅ Chapter 13: Choosing the Right Path Forward

  • Different builders, different directions. Want to keep using APIs for creativity and prototyping? Great. Prefer to train models and control the full pipeline? Also great. This chapter helps you define your developer identity and choose a path aligned with your goals.

✅ Chapter 14: Case Studies & Templates

  • We revisit 3 full projects and break them down step-by-step, showing the full tech stack and thought process:

  • AI Meme Generator (OpenAI + Railway + Vercel)

  • Photo Cartoonizer (Replicate API + Hugging Face Spaces)
  • Personality Chatbot (OpenAI + Render + Vercel) Each comes with a template you can clone, customize, and deploy for your own use cases.

After Part V, You Will Be Able To:

  • Reflect on which path in AI/ML suits your style—API-first, model-first, or hybrid
  • Reuse project templates to rapidly create MVPs or personal tools
  • Present your projects more confidently to clients, employers, or collaborators
  • Plan your next steps—whether it's learning model training, mastering deployment, or launching your own startup

Part V gives you perspective. You’ve learned to build—now you’ll learn to navigate the AI/ML ecosystem with intention and direction.