You finished B.Tech. Now which AI course actually makes sense?
An honest guide for engineering graduates, written by someone who hires-level judges portfolios, not certificates. No job promises here, only what to look for and what to avoid.
By Ashish Punj · Founder, Growtricity · Published 24 June 2026
Why this decision is different after B.Tech
In college, an AI elective is a grade. After B.Tech, an artificial intelligence course is a bet with your time and your family's money. One widely reported employability study found fewer than 5 in 100 Indian engineering graduates could write working code to a given spec. The gap is not intelligence, it is that nobody taught you to build with AI, and most courses will happily sell you more theory.
The one test that filters every AI course
Ask: at the end, do I walk out with software that is live on the internet, that I built, that anyone can open? If the answer is a certificate and a completed playlist, you are buying the thing you already have, a credential without proof. If the answer is a live portfolio, you are buying the thing hiring actually checks.
Your three honest options
Free self-study works if you have the discipline and someone to catch your mistakes, most people stall at the second wall. Online recorded courses are cheap and lonely, completion rates are famously low. A small in-person course costs more attention but gives you a teacher who unsticks you the same minute. None of these guarantees anything; anyone who promises a job after any of them is lying to you.
If you are in the Tricity
Growtricity in Chandigarh is our version of the third option: a room of 8, taught in person by Ashish Punj, who built and sold Pikkop, a Mexico logistics platform that moved over a million packages. You ship one real app in the first 4 weeks and leave with the Agentic Engineering 1.0 certificate recording what you built. Judge it the same way this guide told you to judge everyone: open the software his customers run on, then sit in one free class before you pay a rupee.
Written by Ashish Punj
30 years building and selling software across the US and Mexico. Built and sold Pikkop, a logistics platform that moved over a million packages. He teaches every Growtricity class himself.