AI Engineer Fundamentals

The systems thinking behind AI that runs in production: inference mechanics, retrieval, evals, observability, and the ways it fails at 3am.

1. Think in harnesses
2. Systems and serving
3. Production reality

Read this, in order

  1. 1 AI Engineer Fundamentals tuaregs · Guide The full mental model, including the operational parts most material leaves out.
  2. 2 Building effective agents Anthropic · Article The patterns, and the discipline to use the simplest one that works.
  3. 3 A practical guide to building agents OpenAI · PDF End to end, with the guardrails and handoffs spelled out.
  4. 4 Principles of Building AI Agents Mastra · Book Architecture at length, for when the articles stop being enough.

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