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Why So Many AI Startups Are Lying

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4,391 views • 141 likes • 15 comments • March 21, 2026

The Ultimate Local AI Tier List For 2026

Set up ALL Local AI Tools here: https://zenvanriel.com/open-source ⚡ Become a high-earning AI engineer: https://aiengineer.community/join After hundreds of hours testing local AI on an RTX 5090, I...

20,974 views • 741 likes • 72 comments • March 16, 2026

The Unbeatable Local AI Coding Workflow (Full 2026 Setup)

🎁 Get my FREE local AI projects: https://zenvanriel.com/open-source ⚡ Become a high-earning AI engineer: https://aiengineer.community/join Run Claude Code with local AI models using LM Studio and ...

112,894 views • 3,591 likes • 270 comments • March 01, 2026

Don't Lose Your Engineering Career To AI

🧭 What Type of Engineer Are You? FREE Quiz: https://zenvanriel.com/engineer-quiz?ref=hl2LqZz1bO8 ⚡ Become a high-paid AI engineer: https://aiengineer.community/join Will AI replace software engin...

4,855 views • 225 likes • 16 comments • February 20, 2026

Become The Product Engineer Companies Hire On Day One

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1,243 views • 67 likes • 10 comments • February 12, 2026

Go Fullstack This Year Before AI Replaces You

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1,517 views • 54 likes • 23 comments • February 04, 2026

Don't Waste 2026 Competing Against PhDs (MLOps vs ML Engineer)

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27,450 views • 916 likes • 75 comments • January 26, 2026

Vibe Coders Just Gifted You A 6-Figure Career

🎁 Get the free AI Engineer Starter Kit: https://zenvanriel.com/ai-roadmap?ref=RRJaLUJEG5Q ⚡ Become a high-paid AI Engineer: https://zenvanriel.nl/job AI security engineer is the role nobody's talk...

1,278 views • 62 likes • 11 comments • January 20, 2026

Why Everyone's Switching to Linux for Local AI

🎁 Get the FREE Linux AI Kit from the video: https://zenvanriel.com/open-source ⚡ Master AI and become a high-paid AI Engineer: https://aiengineer.community/join I ran over 100 benchmarks to find o...

20,530 views • 539 likes • 91 comments • January 13, 2026

Run Multiple Claude Code Agents Without Git Conflicts (Vibe Kanban)

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13,238 views • 321 likes • 17 comments • January 07, 2026

The Most Underrated Engineering Role in 2026

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3,413 views • 131 likes • 18 comments • January 05, 2026

I Added Unlimited Image Generation To Claude Code (Nano Banana)

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9,791 views • 186 likes • 26 comments • December 29, 2025

Claude Code Just Got The Ultimate Dev Shortcut (LSP Explained)

🎁 FREE course to master Claude Code: https://zenvanriel.com/ai-roadmap?ref=lffYEu5MhSQ ⚡ Master AI and become a high-paid AI Engineer: https://aiengineer.community/join Create custom LSP plugin: h...

65,923 views • 1,372 likes • 109 comments • December 22, 2025

Why Real Engineers Won't Be Replaced By AI

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1,091 views • 48 likes • 9 comments • December 18, 2025

How To Dominate 2026 as a Software Developer

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8,246 views • 285 likes • 15 comments • December 11, 2025

Don't Waste 2026 on the Wrong Career (ML vs AI Engineer)

🎁 Get the free AI Engineer Portfolio App: https://zenvanriel.com/ai-portfolio?ref=cqDQV5g7zHo ⚡ Become a high-paid AI Engineer: https://aiengineer.community/join Machine learning engineer or AI en...

287,467 views • 8,921 likes • 357 comments • December 01, 2025

Unleash AI Code Agents on Autopilot (Never Look Back)

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9,875 views • 260 likes • 14 comments • November 26, 2025

Why Top AI Engineers Don't Use LangChain

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12,113 views • 363 likes • 22 comments • November 20, 2025

The Simple AI Project To Get You Hired In 2026

⚡ FREE AI Portfolio Starter Kit: https://zenvanriel.com/ai-portfolio 🎯 Work with me 1:1 to get an AI job quickly: https://zenvanriel.nl/job Most engineers think they need to build complex multi-ag...

10,148 views • 442 likes • 16 comments • November 11, 2025

AI Coding Without Rate Limits Is Finally Here (Local Claude Code)

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84,073 views • 1,564 likes • 128 comments • October 30, 2025

The Ultimate Local AI Coding Guide For 2026

🎁 Get my FREE local AI projects: https://zenvanriel.com/open-source ⚡ Master AI and become a high-paid AI Engineer: https://aiengineer.community/join Video references: - LM Studio: https://lmstudi...

220,726 views • 6,108 likes • 468 comments • October 21, 2025

The Complete AI Voice Agent Blueprint

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1,122 views • 46 likes • 7 comments • October 09, 2025

Learn Faster with an AI Knowledge Graph in Obsidian

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8,144 views • 276 likes • 29 comments • September 28, 2025

This AI Coding Trap Destroys Your Productivity

⚡ Master AI with me and become a high-paid AI Engineer: https://aiengineer.community/join 🎁 FREE AI Engineer Starter Kit: https://zenvanriel.nl/ai-roadmap What You'll Learn: - Why your MCP server...

3,661 views • 142 likes • 17 comments • September 19, 2025

The Git Workflow That Fixes Broken Code

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3,079 views • 108 likes • 13 comments • September 11, 2025

The Truth Behind Comparing Claude Code VS Codex (Opus 4.6, GPT 5.3)

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24,067 views • 636 likes • 68 comments • September 01, 2025

AI Writes Better Code With Test Driven Development

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7,838 views • 245 likes • 42 comments • August 26, 2025

The AI Agent That Doesn't Break Production Code

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11,377 views • 378 likes • 22 comments • August 21, 2025

AI Agents That Never Forget Code Changes

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12,705 views • 480 likes • 30 comments • August 12, 2025

Learn to Build AI Agents Like Copilot And Claude

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1,580 views • 70 likes • 8 comments • July 30, 2025

The Context Engineering Cheat Code You Already Have

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2,108 views • 79 likes • 9 comments • July 24, 2025

This MCP Server Fixes The Biggest AI Coding Problem

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4,788 views • 159 likes • 7 comments • July 17, 2025

The Truth Behind Real AI Automations

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779 views • 26 likes • 4 comments • July 09, 2025

Control 3 AI Code Agents to Build Apps Faster (Claude x Gemini x Copilot)

⚡ Master AI with me and become a high-paid AI Engineer: https://aiengineer.community/join What You'll Learn: - How to orchestrate multiple AI coding agents (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CL...

16,205 views • 509 likes • 57 comments • July 03, 2025

This Claude Code Workflow Ships Real Features

⚡ Master AI and earn more as an AI Engineer: https://www.skool.com/ai-engineer What You'll Learn: - How to properly onboard Claude Code by having it analyze your entire codebase - Why creating Pr...

36,018 views • 734 likes • 82 comments • June 27, 2025

My AI Clone Teaches You Future-Proof Skills

⚡ Master AI and earn more as an AI Engineer: https://www.skool.com/ai-engineer Learn how I built an AI brain that ingested all my YouTube content to create a personalized AI engineering tutor that...

912 views • 40 likes • 5 comments • June 19, 2025

The AI Agent That Makes Engineers Irreplaceable

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2,613 views • 108 likes • 18 comments • June 05, 2025

The AI Coding Method That Works Every Time

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26,649 views • 901 likes • 82 comments • May 29, 2025

Build With Thousands of AI Models That Just Work

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843 views • 47 likes • 3 comments • May 27, 2025

Create MCP Servers from Python Code in 10.5 Minutes

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16,475 views • 388 likes • 20 comments • May 20, 2025

My Real AI Coding Experience as a Senior AI Engineer

⚡ Stop watching YouTube alone, master AI coding & engineering faster with us: https://www.skool.com/ai-engineer AI coding tools improved my workflow as a Senior AI Engineer in 2025. In this unscri...

1,358 views • 25 likes • 19 comments • May 15, 2025

Revert broken AI code with Git

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587 views • 22 likes • 2 comments • May 06, 2025

Learn AI In The Cloud Without Expensive Hardware

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668 views • 29 likes • 5 comments • April 29, 2025

Watch this crash course to become an AI Engineer

Course module download: https://github.com/AI-Engineer-Skool/ai-engineer-public (Click the green Code button and then "Download ZIP") For access to all modules, join the AI Engineer community: htt...

1,348 views • 47 likes • 8 comments • April 22, 2025

The Costly Mistake That AI Beginners Make

Join my community to become a high-paid AI engineer: https://skool.com/ai-engineer Simple AI agent browsing tasks can cost up to a DOLLAR for just ONE query using tools like Playwright. Most begin...

963 views • 69 likes • 8 comments • April 17, 2025

GPT 4.1 - Why Million Token Context Changes The AI Game

Become a high-paid AI engineer: https://www.skool.com/ai-engineer OpenAI's new GPT 4.1 models come with an incredible million-token context window - a revolutionary leap from previous 4K, 8K, and ...

1,620 views • 38 likes • 21 comments • April 15, 2025

This AI Toolkit turns you into an AI Engineer

Learn to implement these tools and become a real AI engineer: https://www.skool.com/ai-engineer Create ANY AI app with this comprehensive guide: I share my entire toolkit for building AI applicati...

5,868 views • 294 likes • 25 comments • April 09, 2025

Code & Test Apps Like It's 2030 With Copilot Agent + MCP

Become a high-paid AI engineer: https://www.skool.com/ai-engineer I demonstrate how to use the new Visual Studio Code's MCP (Model Context Protocol) server integration with GitHub Copilot AI to au...

2,504 views • 58 likes • 9 comments • April 04, 2025

Build your AI Second Brain with Notion and Claude (MCP)

Become a high-paid AI engineer: https://www.skool.com/ai-engineer References to integrate Claude + Notion with an MCP server yourself: https://claude.ai/download (You must use Claude desktop!) A ...

35,003 views • 627 likes • 92 comments • April 02, 2025

Link Your Local AI Models to ANY App Using MCP

⚡ Become a real, high-paid AI engineer: https://www.skool.com/ai-engineer The example from this video can be found here: https://github.com/AI-Engineer-Skool/local-ai-mcp-chainlit If you want to ...

19,563 views • 381 likes • 46 comments • March 27, 2025