The skill map

The skills top AI roles test. Graded, not discussed.

Not puzzles. This is the actual AI-engineering skill map, the things you get interviewed and judged on, and almost none of it is tested deterministically anywhere. Here every cell is a challenge a hidden oracle grades in a real sandbox: write the spec, ship it, and reality tells you if you were right.

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System Design

How AI systems are wired: pipelines, retrieval, memory, orchestration.

Agent orchestration

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Direct a team of agents to ship a task. Graded on how you route and verify, not one clever prompt.

Retrieval / RAG

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Tune a chunk to search pipeline until it surfaces buried answers. Hidden queries grade recall on docs you can't see while tuning.

Tool routing

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Route a request to the right tool. Hidden cases catch the misroutes and the ambiguous intents.

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Context management

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Fit the right context in a token budget without dropping the answer to the hidden question.

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Cost & latency

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A cheap-first, escalate-when-needed routing policy, graded on a hidden cost by quality frontier.

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Prompt Engineering

Getting exact, machine-checkable behavior out of a model.

Structured prompting

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Write a spec precise enough that hidden tests pass. Vague prompts confidently ship the bug.

Prompt injection & security

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Harden a service against a real attack corpus. The gauntlet finds the gap a vague prompt leaves open.

Context compression

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Compress a long context to a budget and still answer the hidden questions it has to cover.

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Eval & Reliability

Proving a system actually works. The discipline PromptGolf is built on.

Build an eval harness

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You're handed unlabeled AI outputs and a spec; you build the judge that catches the defects. We grade YOUR evaluator against a hidden labeled set.

Data Engineering

The data behind retrieval: chunking, embeddings, search, cleaning.

Chunking

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Chunk documents so the answer survives the split. Graded on downstream recall.

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Vector search

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Index and query embeddings for recall@k against a hidden query set.

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Data cleaning

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Clean a messy dataset up to a hidden quality bar.

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Synthetic data

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Generate data that matches a hidden target distribution.

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