AI Engineer YouTube Stats

@aidotengineer · Tech & AI · Updated Nov 6, 2026

AI Engineer channel overview

AI Engineer (@aidotengineer) is a YouTube channel in the Tech & AI niche created in 2023. It has 988K subscribers and 38M total views across 1.5K videos, an average of 25K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 14K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 8.3K views. Over the last 12 months, AI Engineer published 127 videos (1% Shorts), and 23 of them (18%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, AI Engineer gained 181K subscribers and 4.3M views, about 253K views a day.

How much does AI Engineer make?

Returbe estimates AI Engineer's YouTube ad revenue at $30K – $121K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $4 to $16, typically $8, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $8K.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

AI Engineer publishes about 135.8 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (21% of uploads), usually around 08:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

AI Engineer's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are AI Engineer's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• Full Walkthrough: Workflow for AI Coding — Matt Pocock1.8M views · Apr 24, 2026219.6× typical views
• Is the Agent Harness Dead? — Jediah Katz, SpaceXAI373K views · Oct 19, 202644.8× typical views
• AI Writes the Code. So What's Left for Engineers? - Laurie Voss, Arize AI340K views · Oct 24, 202640.9× typical views
• Does Code Quality Still Matter? It Depends on This — Max Kanat-Alexander, Capital One269K views · Oct 21, 202632.3× typical views
• Make Your AI Agents Predictable With Graph Engineering - Zachary Blumenfeld, Neo4j128K views · Nov 3, 202615.4× typical views
• How Revolut Cut AI Coding Costs 90% With Self-Hosted Open Models - David Abitbol, Revolut101K views · Oct 29, 202612.1× typical views
• How Anthropic Merges 30,000 Code Changes a Day - Manish Kapur, Sonar & Addy Osmani, Anthropic86K views · Oct 28, 202610.3× typical views
• Why AI Makes You 100x Faster but Not Your Company - Mitchell Troyanovsky, Basis79K views · Nov 4, 20269.5× typical views

Latest videos

6 of AI Engineer's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• How We Mapped a 35-Million-Line Mainframe in 4 Days - Stephen Chin, Neo4j & Neeraj Deshmukh, Blitzy167 views · Nov 6, 20261× typical views
• AI Engineer Code Summit 2026 — Day 2 | November 120 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• AI Engineer Code Summit 2026 — Day 1 | November 110 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• 当我们什么都能做，还知道自己想做什么吗？When We Can Do Anything, Do We Still Know What We Want? — Ryo Lu, ex-Cursor2.7K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• 7 Things Your AI Coworker Needs - Philipp Schmid, Google DeepMind6.5K views · Nov 6, 20260.5× typical views
• Your AI Isn't the Advantage. Your Judgment Is - Sid Pednekar3.1K views · Nov 6, 20260.3× typical views
• Your AI Agent Keeps Making the Same Mistakes - Sparsh Jain, CentralAgent AI3.6K views · Nov 6, 20260.4× typical views
• AI Agents Will Upend Investing Even More Than Coding - Frank Long, Coatue17K views · Nov 6, 20262× typical views
• Stop Giving Your AI Agents API Keys - Kim Maida, Keycard & Mason Egger, Temporal4.5K views · Nov 5, 20260.5× typical views
• How Netflix Evaluates AI When There's No Right Answer - Cameron Wolfe, Netflix12K views · Nov 5, 20261.4× typical views

The Tech & AI niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 8.9K videos from 730 channels in this niche. 11.2% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 7K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $4 to $16.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Memes Land (88K subs, best video 177.6×), Fun_Games (69K subs, best video 303.1×), Sprunki Land (36K subs, best video 81.1×), MR Mocha White (16K subs, best video 128.9×), Fun Universe (56K subs, best video 96.9×), Fun Games (74K subs, best video 257×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with AI Engineer or YouTube.