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April 12, 2026-21 min read

The Evolution of AI Engineering: From Prompt to Context to Harness

Working with LLMs has moved through three phases: prompt engineering, context engineering, and now harness engineering. Here's why the environment you build around the model matters more than the model itself.

AI EngineeringHarness EngineeringContext Engineering
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April 11, 2026-25 min read

Understanding Transformers: From First Principles to Production GPTs

A Feynman-style deep dive into the Transformer architecture. We build intuition from the simplest possible idea up to full GPT implementations, tracing Karpathy's progression from micrograd to nanochat.

Deep LearningTransformersNLP
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April 11, 2026-32 min read

Building AI Agents: From First Principles to Production

A deep dive into AI agents, starting from the simplest possible idea and building up to production-grade agentic systems with tool use, memory, reasoning loops, and multi-agent orchestration.

AILLMAI Agents
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