AI Engineering16 min read
How We Actually Use AI to Ship Code
A practical look at how we direct coding agents, protect context, debug with evidence, test generated code, and keep human judgment in the loop.
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AI Engineering
AI engineering is the work between a cool demo and something a team can trust. This topic collects roadmaps, architecture questions, evals, deployment lessons, and hiring advice.
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AI Engineering29 min read
Context Engineering in 2026: Why We Stopped Compacting Our Agent's Context
We measured a dozen context management strategies on our production AI tutor, first on cached cloud models and then on local ones, and the field's default advice inverted: under modern prompt caching, keeping everything beat every summarization strategy on cost, latency, and memory at once.
AI Engineering7 min read
The Towards AI Mentorship for AI Engineers
I am excited to launch the mentorship I wish every solo AI engineer could have: a senior team behind your projects, decisions, and career.
AI Engineering10 min read
How I'd Learn AI Engineering in 2026
A practical path from coding-agent speed to the architecture, evaluation, and failure-analysis skills real AI engineering work requires.
AI Agents13 min read
How I Automated 90% of My Content Workflow With AI Agents
The architecture, agent loops, writing workflow, visual system, and title tests behind a content pipeline that cut my workload from two or three days to about five hours.
AI Agents6 min read
Graph Engineering vs Loop Engineering: What Actually Changed
Why the loops-versus-graphs debate misses the point, what actually changed in agent orchestration, and which parts of your system should stay deterministic.
AI Agents11 min read
Loop Engineering Explained
A practical way to stop babysitting coding agents: design their context, tools, checks, budgets, and stop conditions.
AI Agents17 min read
Coding Changed Forever
What changed in AI coding, why generated code can feel faster, and where engineering judgment still matters.
Computer Vision11 min read
Your AI Can Improve Itself — Or Fool You
How recursive AI improvement loops work, why weak evals reward the wrong behavior, and what builders can use now.
AI Agents9 min read
Harness Engineering: The Missing Layer Behind AI Agents
Prompting tells an agent what to do. The harness controls its tools, permissions, tests, traces, and failures.
AI Engineering10 min read
What I Look For When Hiring AI Engineers
After interviewing more than 100 candidates, here’s what actually stands out in AI engineering interviews and take-home assignments
AI Agents6 min read
Stop Building Agent Demos
What separates a polished AI agent demo from a system your team can evaluate, debug, deploy, and trust.
AI Agents14 min read
The 12 Questions That Decide Your AI Architecture
A cheatsheet to avoid costly rework in agent systems.
AI Agents9 min read
Multi-agent is becoming the new overengineering
You’re not building agents. You’re building workflows (and that’s fine)
AI Engineering2 min read
Earn While Helping Others Learn AI
1 referral = our bestselling book. 3 referrals = a course. 10 = full access + affiliate tier
Large Language Models14 min read
Prompt Engineering 101 for Business People
Tips for Crafting the Perfect Prompt for Each Model
AI Agents3 min read
How to Really Build on Top of LLMs
(full training session) (typical path for companies)
AI Engineering10 min read
Open-Sora 2.0 Explained: Architecture, Training, and Why It Matters
How Open-Sora 2.0 Built Sora-Level Video AI for $200K
Large Language Models7 min read
LLM Developers vs Software Developers vs ML Engineers: Key Differences
The Need for New Skills and Roles
Large Language Models7 min read
Research With AI Tools
Research and Writing: Why AI Tools Change the Workflow
AI Engineering12 min read
Best Practices for Building and Deploying Scalable APIs in 2025
API Deployment for AI Engineers
Large Language Models10 min read
Optimizing RAG: Should you Fine-Tune?
Optimizing Large Language Models for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Large Language Models7 min read
How to Improve Your RAG Pipeline with Fine-Tuned Embedding Models
Is fine-tuning an embedding model worth it?
Large Language Models6 min read
Long Context Models Explained: Do We Still Need RAG?
Retrieval-Augmented Generation vs. Long Context: A Comprehensive Comparison
Large Language Models8 min read
Don’t Fall for the Hype: How to Identify Truly Useful AI
What Makes AI Truly Useful?
RAG and Retrieval9 min read
How to Effectively Evaluate Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Systems
Why RAG Evaluation Matters and Techniques to Leverage
Large Language Models8 min read
Indexing Methods for Vector Retrieval
Advanced Vector Indexing Techniques for RAG
Large Language Models9 min read
Find the Best AI Model for Your Specific Task
No-code Custom LLM Evaluation Demo
Large Language Models5 min read
The AI Engineer's toolkit
Our first book: Building LLMs for Production: Enhancing LLM Abilities and Reliability with Prompting, Fine-Tuning, and RAG
AI Engineering55 min read
AI and Art - Redefining Creativity with Mariam Brian
The What's AI podcast episode 28 with artist and CEO Mariam Brian
AI Engineering60 min read
How is Data Transforming AI
Jerome Pasquero on Data Annotation: The Building Blocks of AI's Future - The What's AI Podcast (episode 27)
AI Engineering66 min read
AI Unveiled: Ethics, Innovation, and the Human-AI Symbiosis
AI, autonomous vehicles and more in this new episode of the What's AI podcast!
Large Language Models58 min read
What's AI Episode 25: Jerry Liu. From RAG Strategies to Gemini's Impact in Tech
The What's AI podcast episode 25 with Jerry Liu: LlamaIndex CEO and co-founder
Large Language Models2 min read
Train, fine-tune, prompt, RAG... What should you do with your LLM?
Tips on what to do with your language model or API
Large Language Models7 min read
Meet Our new AI Tutor!
How we Built an Open-Source RAG-based ChatGPT Web App
AI Engineering54 min read
Responsible AI: Insights from an Ethics Expert
The What's AI Podcast Episode 20 with Auxane Boch: Ethics Expert
RAG and Retrieval6 min read
Image Manipulation with Your Mouse! Drag Your Gan Explained
Move anything from point A to point B!
AI Engineering55 min read
What is Explainability AI?
Interview with Yotam Azriel, CTO at TensorLeap - What's AI episode 13
AI Engineering2 min read
How AI Enhances Writing & Affects Journalism
An interview with Limarc Ambalina, VP of Editorial at HackerNoon
AI Engineering3 min read
Break into AI in 2023: Best Resume & Interview Tips with Brian Burns (AI Pub) - What's AI Podcast Episode 9
Ph.D., Twitter, Breaking into the AI Field, and more with Brian Burns (AI Pub)
AI Engineering8 min read
10x Your Productivity with those AI Tools
These AI Tools will 10x Your Productivity!
AI Engineering2 min read
What is a Self-Driving Car Engineer?
Insights to become a self-driving car engineer in 2023
AI Engineering1 min read
An interview with the Director of Perception at Zoox: Ruijie (RJ) He: What is an ML Engineer and more...
An interview with the Director of Perception at Zoox, Ruijie (RJ) He, with the goal of demystifying what is a good profile to get an ML engineer job and perform at the interviews.
AI Engineering7 min read
Automatic Re-Aging with AI! Disney’s FRAN Model Explained
Disney's New Model Explained
Large Language Models4 min read
Prompting Explained: How to talk to ChatGPT
What is a prompt engineer and how to improve at it…
AI Engineering4 min read
General Video Recognition with AI
What does such a model understand when it sees such a picture or, even more complex, a video?
AI Engineering5 min read
How Stable Diffusion works? Latent Diffusion Models Explained
A High-Resolution Image Synthesis Architecture: Latent Diffusion
AI Engineering7 min read
What is data-centric AI?
The beginning of data-centric AI with data programming
AI Engineering5 min read
How Uber uses AI to serve you better
How can Uber deliver food and always arrive on time or a few minutes before?
AI Engineering6 min read
Top 5 AI Articles of February - Hackernoon
the five best articles related to artificial intelligence in February
AI Engineering7 min read
AI Facial Editing of Real Videos ! Stitch it in Time Explained
AI-based face manipulations in high-quality talking head videos !
AI Engineering8 min read
Why should you sleep for 8 hours?
"Sleep is not a disposable luxury - it's a non-negotiable biological necessity." -Matthew Walker
Large Language Models7 min read
Biologically-inspired Neural Networks for Self-Driving Cars
Imitating the nematode's nervous system to process information efficiently, this new intelligent system is more robust, more interpretable, and faster to train than current deep neural network architectures with millions of parameters.
AI Engineering10 min read
Tesla's Autopilot Explained! Tesla AI Day in 10 Minutes
Andrej Karpathy's talk on Tesla's autopilot explained clearly in under 10 minutes
AI Engineering7 min read
Image Synthesis and Editing from Sketches: SDEdit. No more tedious training needed!
Say goodbye to complex GAN and transformer architectures for image generation. This new method can generate new images from any user-based inputs.
AI Engineering6 min read
⏩ How AI *Understand* Images in Simple Terms
AI is everywhere; understand how it works and build the most powerful applications! A simple explanation of the most popular deep neural network architecture for images: Convolutional Neural Networks. AI put simply.
AI Engineering8 min read
CVPR 2021 Best Paper Award: GIRAFFE - Controllable Image Generation
Using a modified GAN architecture, they can move objects in the image without affecting the background or the other objects!
AI Engineering6 min read
Is AI The Future Of Video Game Design? Enhancing Photorealism Enhancement
This AI can be applied live to the video game and transform every frame to look much more natural.
AI Engineering9 min read
Realistic Lighting on Different Backgrounds
Properly relight any portrait based on the lighting of the new background you add.
AI Engineering9 min read
An Amputee with an AI-Powered Hand! 🦾
With this AI-powered nerve interface, the amputee can control a neuroprosthetic hand with life-like dexterity and intuitiveness.
AI Engineering7 min read
How can Transformers be used in Computer Vision?
In less than 5 minutes, you will know how the transformer architecture can be applied to computer vision with a new paper called the Swin Transformer
AI Engineering7 min read
Third Wave of AI | Thinking Fast and Slow
Drawing inspiration from Human Capabilities Towards a more general and trustworthy AI & 10 Questions for the AI Research Community.
AI Engineering10 min read
What is it to be a Data Scientist - An Interview
A professional data scientist answers the 12 most asked questions. Clarify and debunks the myths you've built surrounding this field!
AI Engineering3 min read
DeOldify: Colorize your Black & White Photos with AI
This method is called DeOldify and works on pretty much any picture. If you don’t believe me, you can even try it yourself for free, as I will show in this article.
AI Engineering3 min read
Transfer clothes between photos using AI
This artificial intelligence model transfers clothes between photos using only one picture of yourself and one picture of the clothing! This is called garment transfer...
AI Engineering4 min read
Toonify: Transform Faces into Disney animated movie Characters
This AI can transform any of your pictures into an accurate representation with a Disney animated movie character style!
AI Engineering4 min read
Create and Understand DeepFakes in 5 minutes
Understand how deep fakes work and create your own!
AI Engineering2 min read
What is the YOLO algorithm? Introduction to Real-Time Object Detection
YOLO, Also Known as You Only Look Once is one of the most powerful real-time object detector algorithms. It is called that way because…