The AI Engineering Brief Newsletter

AI-Value-Creation

Become an AI Value Creator

Part 1 of a five-part premium series for technical leaders. From data strategy to governance to what comes after the hype cycle, this is the blueprint for building AI that actually compounds.

15 Feb

claude-code

Claude Code Tips From the Guy Who Built It

Boris Cherny created Claude Code at Anthropic. Over three Twitter threads (early January, late January, and February 2026), he shared

15 Feb

Agentic Architecture

Temporal + LangGraph: A Two-Layer Architecture for Multi-Agent Coordination

Using Temporal and LangGraph for multi-agent systems in production solves retries, state persistence, and failures.

14 Jan

AI's Naughty and Nice List

AI's best and worst moments came from the same companies in 2025

24 Dec

Vibe Coding

Why AI Coding Advice Contradicts Itself

If you don't know what you're doing, AI fails with death by a thousand cuts.

20 Dec

AI Engineering

The Context Advantage

How to Turn AI Agents into High-Leverage Teammates

10 Dec

RAG

RAG at Scale: What It Takes To Serve 10,000 Queries A Day

24 Nov

Agentic Architecture

Understanding Generative UI

A Layered Walkthrough of the Generative UI paper everyone is talking about

20 Nov

AI Agents

Senior Developers Are Better at Using AI Agents

Experience matters more than prompt engineering. Senior developers outperform juniors with AI agents because they have decades of pattern recognition. They know what good code looks like, what to ask for, and when the AI is wrong.

13 Nov

Agentic Architecture

Eliza Redux: A Real-Time Voice AI Crisis Support Agent

I built a crisis support voice AI Agent in roughly 90 minutes at a voice AI hackathon and won. Here&

27 Oct

AI Browser

Atlas Unshrugged

ChatGPT Atlas vs Perplexity Comet: Real-World AI Browser Showdown When OpenAI announced Atlas, I was curious. I've used

25 Oct

AI Strategy

Stop Planning Your AI Strategy and Start Running Experiments

20 Oct

Introducing AI Engineering Premium

When I started this newsletter, my goal was simple: to explore how AI systems are actually built. Over time, it’

18 Oct

RAG

Rethinking RAG: Meta’s REFRAG

For the past few years, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has been the workhorse architecture for grounded LLM applications. You retrieve relevant

15 Oct

Nobody Knows How to Charge for AI

I've been watching the AI SaaS pricing chaos unfold over the past year, and honestly, it's

13 Oct

AI Agents

MCP + A2A: The Protocols Making AI Agents Actually Work Together

I presented this at the AI Engineer meetup in London. It is a short, practical overview of why agent interoperability

09 Oct

Vibe Coding

Cargo Cult Vibe Coding

In the age of AI code generation, we risk trading craftsmanship for ritual It's the 1940s in the

04 Oct

AI Engineering

The Rubber Duck That Talks Back

How AI is Teaching Developers to Think Before They Code

10 Aug