For me, the shortest path i found from full-stack Web Dev to full-on AI Rockstar was this one YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhtjd7yGGGA which clarified for me, in just 40 minutes, exactly how to 1) leverage my knowledge of Postgres into getting my hands dirty tokenizing a huge repository of any content into pure magical numerical data inside a vector db, 2) apply my years of experience building local site search UIs into the actual nuts & bolts of transforming a search query into an effective AI prompt, and 3) do all that on a cheap little ec2 server without a single GPU in sight! The video is over a year old now (!) and there are more recent updates and similar how-to's elsewhere, but this short, practical, and honestly amazing story of a guy crushing on the perfect first use case for AI on a website spoke directly to my web dev soul, and really demystified all the AI hype for me, so much more so than the firehose of AI-wrapper content ever could!