Resources
! 39 curated references
! Books
LLM Engineer's Handbook
Hands-on guide to building, fine-tuning, and deploying LLMs in production. Covers data pipelines, RAG, supervised fine-tuning, preference alignment, evaluation, and LLMOps.
Beyond Vibe Coding
Practical guide to maintaining code quality in the age of AI-assisted development. Covers integrating AI into workflows, reviewing AI-generated code critically, and when to vibe code vs. when to engineer.
! Posts & Articles
! Videos & Courses
The AI Revolution Is Underhyped
Former Google CEO makes the case that AI is wildly underhyped. Wide-ranging interview on staggering opportunities, sobering challenges, and urgent risks of non-human intelligence.
Neural Networks: Zero to Hero
Build neural networks from scratch, from backpropagation to modern GPT architectures. The gold standard for understanding LLMs at a deep level.
Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT
Under-the-hood fundamentals of LLMs explained for a general audience. Covers pretraining, RLHF, and how ChatGPT-like models actually work.
The AI-Native Software Engineer
Practical playbook for AI-assisted software engineering. Why we're coding faster but shipping slower, and how to fix it with disciplined AI workflows.
Dario Amodei: Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity
Wide-ranging conversation with the Anthropic CEO covering Claude, scaling laws, AI safety, the race to AGI, and the future of humanity. One of the best long-form AI leadership interviews.
Building Claude Code
Deep dive into the origins, architecture, and design philosophy of Claude Code. Covers how it evolved from safety research, multi-layered safety measures, and AI-augmented development workflows.
LLM Course
Free, comprehensive community-driven course covering LLM fundamentals, building with LLMs, fine-tuning, RAG, and deployment. Includes notebooks and exercises.
Generative AI for Beginners
Free 21-lesson course covering generative AI fundamentals, prompt engineering, building AI apps, and responsible AI. Includes code samples and assignments.
Dwarkesh Patel Podcast — AI Interviews
Long-form, deeply technical interviews with AI leaders including Karpathy, Sutskever, and more. Known for unusually high-signal, probing questions.
! Tools & Frameworks
Claude Code
Agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal. Edits files, runs commands, searches codebases, and manages complex multi-step development tasks.
Cursor
AI-first code editor built on VS Code. Tab completion, inline editing, and chat interface powered by multiple LLM providers. The breakout AI coding tool of 2024-2025.
OpenCode
Open-source AI coding agent in Go. TUI + CLI supporting 75+ models. Features session management, vim-like editor, LSP support, and file change tracking.
Codex CLI
Open-source coding agent running locally in your terminal. Connects OpenAI models with local code for writing, editing, debugging, and file management.
Aider
AI pair programming in your terminal. Works with any LLM. Edits code in your local git repo with automatic commits. Pioneered many patterns now common in AI coding tools.
AGENTS.md
Open standard for configuring AI agent behavior in projects. A "README for AI agents" — tells coding assistants how to work with your specific codebase.
SKILL.md / Agent Skills
Open standard for defining reusable, portable AI agent capabilities. Skills are stored in directories with instructions, scripts, and templates.
LangChain / LangGraph
Most popular framework for building LLM-powered applications. LangGraph adds graph-based API for complex, stateful agent workflows with durable execution.
LlamaIndex
Data framework for connecting LLMs with structured and unstructured data. The go-to framework for building RAG pipelines with enterprise-scale support.
Hugging Face Transformers
The standard library for working with transformer models. Thousands of pretrained models, tokenizers, and training utilities. Essential open-source AI infrastructure.
Ollama
Run large language models locally with a single command. Supports Llama, Mistral, Gemma, Phi, and more. OpenAI-compatible API. Essential for local development.
vLLM
High-throughput LLM serving engine with PagedAttention. The standard for self-hosting LLMs in production at scale. Continuous batching and OpenAI-compatible API.
! MCPs
Tavily MCP
Integrates AI agents with Tavily's LLM-optimized search engine. Real-time web search and content extraction for research, fact-checking, and data gathering.
Context7 MCP
Provides agents with up-to-date, version-specific library documentation directly in context. Avoids hallucinated API information. Essential for coding agents.
Supabase MCP
Connects agents to Supabase projects for database management, querying, migrations, and administration. Execute SQL, manage tables, deploy edge functions.
GitHub MCP
Official GitHub MCP server. Seamless integration with GitHub APIs — repositories, pull requests, issues, and more.
Cloudflare MCP
Connects agents to Cloudflare services for managing Workers, KV, R2, D1, and other Cloudflare resources.
Firecrawl MCP
Advanced web scraping and content extraction for AI agents. Scraping, crawling, mapping, and structured data extraction capabilities.
Awesome MCP Servers
Community-curated list of MCP servers across categories: search, databases, cloud platforms, developer tools, and communication. The go-to discovery resource.
! Newsletters & Communities
AI Engineer
The premier technical AI conference and community platform. Runs the largest AI engineering conferences worldwide. Free talk videos on YouTube.
Latent Space
Leading AI engineering podcast and newsletter. 170,000+ subscribers. Deep technical interviews with the people behind major AI projects. Active Discord community.
The Batch
Weekly AI newsletter with deep analyses of the most important AI developments, plus commentary from Andrew Ng. Authoritative, balanced, educational.
Ahead of AI
Deep, accessible newsletter on ML papers and LLM research. By the author of "Build a Large Language Model from Scratch." Best for tracking latest research.
Simon Willison's Weblog
Django co-creator who writes about practical LLM use and implications in a way that's engaging even for non-engineers. Constantly experiments with the latest models. Year-end reviews are essential reading.
Hacker News
Y Combinator's link aggregator. The front page of the tech industry — where AI papers, tools, and launches surface first. Essential daily reading for staying current.
The Rundown AI
Daily AI newsletter covering the latest news, tools, and tutorials. Quick-scan format with actionable summaries for busy builders.
GenAI Handbook
Comprehensive open-source handbook covering the full GenAI stack, drawing from the best blogs, YouTube series, textbooks, and courses.