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Thoughts on AI engineering

Mental models, hard-won lessons and the occasional strong opinion — my notes on how to actually build production AI, written for engineers who ship.

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How Vector Databases Actually Find Your Nearest Neighbors

Ask a 10-million-document knowledge base a question and it answers in milliseconds. Here is how vector search really works — IVF, PQ, HNSW, DiskANN — and which database to pick.

9 min read

  • MindsetAI Agents

    The Mental Model Every AI Agent Engineer Should Have

    A viewer asked what AI Engineers actually code all day. Here is the mental model I keep coming back to — the seven problems that AI Agent Engineers and AI Architects really solve, for learning, problem solving and interviews.

    4 min read