AI Agents
RAGEntic AI: A framework for AI Agents
A blueprint for architecting AI agents
The AI Engineering Brief Newsletter
Practical Insights on AI Agents, LLM Ops, Context Engineering
LLM Security
LLM Security 101: Defending Against Prompt Hacks
How attackers manipulate LLMs—And what you can do to stop them
LLM Fundamentals
The Art of Sampling: Controlling Randomness in LLMs
A Mental Model for Temperature, Top-k, and Top-p
Machine Learning
Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT by Andrej Karpathy - TL;DW version
I think everything that Andrej Karpathy shares on X or YouTube is a goldmine of information, and his latest video,
LLM Scaling
Thinking Smarter, Not Harder: How LLMs Can Learn on the Fly
...or how I learned to stop worrying and love inference-time scaling
LLM Scaling
How to think about LLM Model Size
Breaking Down Parameters, Training Data, and Compute
RAG
Building, Breaking, and Rebuilding: My Journey to a Smarter RAG Application
Ever tried organising years of accumulated knowledge into a searchable system? That's what led me down the rabbit
AI Engineering
From ML to AI Engineering: Transforming How We Build AI Applications
a not so subtle paradigm shift
Heroku
Building a Matrix-themed Chat Interface with Heroku's New Managed Inference API
The Heroku Managed Inference and Agent add-on is currently in pilot. Apply to join the Managed Inference and Agents Pilot
Agentic Architecture
AI Agent Use Case Evaluation: From Risk Assessment to Implementation
When I first started evaluating Agentforce implementations, I made the classic engineer's mistake: jumping straight into technical capabilities
LLM Fundamentals
LLM Transformer Overview
..for the busy AI engineer
LLM Fundamentals
What is an AI Agent?
Gentle introduction to Agentic systems
LLM Fundamentals
LLMCompiler - Towards parallel function calling
a huge step forward for using LLMs in practical applications
Stream of Consciousness
Anybody can learn to code
Anybody can learn to code. Yes, you read that right. People who write code, professionally or otherwise, are not born
SecOps
How I learned to stop worrying and love SecOps
Note: this post is about defensive security that helps developers build secure applications instead of offensive security.
Introduction
Much ink
Developer Productivity
Invert, always, invert
man muss immer umkehren - Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
(loosely translated - Invert, always, invert)
Today, we will look at
Developer Productivity
Tracking Productivity
What gets measured gets done! - Peter Drucker
If you work as a software engineer (especially as a manager or
Documentation
Documentation - your secret weapon
When you work on a software project, someone will eventually ask a variation of this dreaded question - "Do