Reference.
What is actually open in a tab while we build, sorted by topic. This is a pile, not a route — if you want to be told what to read next, start with a path instead.
Models and prompting
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Master AI Without Coding: The Complete Guide
tuaregs.ai
The whole landscape in plain language. The one to read before you install or buy anything
Guide
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AI in the Enterprise
OpenAI
Seven companies, what they actually shipped, and what it took. Skip the introduction
Guide
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Prompting guide 101
Google
Twenty pages that fix most bad results, because most bad results are bad questions
Guide
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Prompt Engineering
Google
The longer, more technical companion to the 101. Read it second
Article
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Identifying and scaling AI use cases
OpenAI
How the teams that got past the pilot stage chose what to build
Guide
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601 real-world Google Cloud AI use cases
Google
A catalogue to steal from. Skim it for the shape of your own problem
Article
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Prompt engineering overview
Anthropic
Where the mental model turns into better output on Monday morning
Article
Agents
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AI Engineer Fundamentals
tuaregs.ai
Harness thinking, inference mechanics, retrieval, evals, observability — and the failure modes nobody puts in a demo
Guide
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A practical guide to building agents
OpenAI
End to end, including the guardrails and handoffs most write-ups skip
Guide
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Startup technical guide - AI agents
Google
Agent architecture written for small teams rather than platform organisations
Guide
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Building effective agents
Anthropic
The clearest writing on agents there is, and most of it argues for simpler designs
Article
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Agents Companion
Google
Denser than the articles. Worth it once you have built something and have real questions
Guide
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Principles of Building AI Agents
Mastra
Book-length architecture, free to read, from people running this in production
Book
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Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction
MIT Press
The canonical RL text. Slow going, and its ideas keep turning up elsewhere
Book