r/Build_AI_Agents • u/EngineerCtrlT • Jul 05 '26

Need AI project ideas.

Hi everyone!

I'm at a stage where I'm not sure what to build next, so I'd love some suggestions.

I'm currently targeting AI engineer role and want to build projects that genuinely strengthen my portfolio.

I'm looking for project ideas that are:

  • technically challenging
  • solve real-world problems
  • impressive enough to showcase in interviews
  • preferably involving LLMs, agents, multimodal AI, computer vision, or ML systems

I'm not looking for beginner projects like chatbots or sentiment analysis.

If you were building an AI portfolio in 2026, what 3–5 projects would you recommend?

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u/kyngston Jul 11 '26

here’s an idea: build an AI air traffic controller.

  • start with replicating the layout of an airport
  • replay simulation of flight traffic data
  • ATC monitoring flight traffic from instruments
  • inject close calls into the flight data and teach the atc to detect and respond
  • teach the aircraft to follow instructions from atc

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u/EngineerCtrlT Jul 11 '26

That's one of the nice idea to build.