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AI Engineer Fundamentals

The systems thinking behind production AI: inference mechanics, RAG, evals, observability, and what actually breaks in production.

1 Harness thinking
2 Systems & serving
3 Production ops

Read this, in order

  1. 1AI Engineer Fundamentalstuaregs · GuideStart here: the full mental model for building AI systems that ship.
  2. 2Building effective agentsAnthropic · ArticleThe agent patterns that hold up in production.
  3. 3A practical guide to building agentsOpenAI · PDFEnd-to-end framework for agent development.
  4. 4Principles of Building AI AgentsMastra · BookArchitecture and implementation, book-length.

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