Building effective agents

A post for developers with advice and workflows for building effective AI agents

The 2025 AI Engineering Reading List

We picked 50 paper/models/blogs across 10 fields in AI Eng: LLMs, Benchmarks, Prompting, RAG, Agents...

AI Founder's Bitter Lesson. Chapter 1 - History Repeats Itself | Luka...

Historically, general approaches always win in AI. Founders in AI application space now repeat the m...

The Anti-Social Century

Americans are now spending more time alone than ever.

The Evaporative Cooling Effect in Social Network : Networks Course ...

Cognitive load is what matters

There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but let's focus on something more fundamen...

Building effective agents

A post for developers with advice and workflows for building effective AI agents

People who are going to change the world

Inspired by Patrick Collison's list of interesting people.

People · Patrick Collison

Moon – Bartosz Ciechanowski

Interactive article about the Moon

Making “Social” Social Again

Announcing Mozi

The Making of Kino: You Can (Not) Build a Pro Video Camera App in Four...

A true story of indie app development: why we made the plunge to build our pro video camera app Kino...

“Link In Bio” is a slow knife - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Pushing the frontiers of audio generation

Our pioneering speech generation technologies are helping people around the world interact with more...

Using Reinforcement Learning and $4.80 of GPU Time to Find the Best HN...

Convert expensive LLM prompts into fast, cheap fine-tuned models

Exclusive: Flappy Bird Creator Speaks

How did a chain-smoking geek from Hanoi design the viral hit Flappy Bird - and why did he walk away?

It made me $500k but I think content is a bad business | Swizec Teller

Why I didn't become a full-time creator/educator

Entropy Explained, With Sheep

What is entropy, really? Why does it always keep increasing? Why don’t eggshells uncrack, or wine gl...

Cartographist

Web Browser Optimized for Rabbit-Holing

What I’ve Learned in the Past Year Spent Building an AI Video Editor

Lessons from An Unexpected Year in AI

An Interview with Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth About Orion and Reality Lab...

An Interview with Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth About Orion and Reality Labs

Redesign the NYT

Asking the wrong questions — Benedict Evans

With fundamental technology change, we don't so much get our predictions wrong as make predictions a...

The Infinite Audio Book

I had this seemingly dumb idea. Most such ideas are fleeting, and you don't act on them.

Signal: How To Ethically Boost Your Revenues

In this case study, we look at how simple psychological & UX strategies can help the messaging app, ...

The secret inside One Million Checkboxes

Teens wrote secret binary messages in One Million Checkboxes. I found them.

Margot Monet's creators hoped she would rake in thousands as an AI inf...

As people spend more time online, bonds forged with influencers generated by artificial intelligence...

A Visual Guide to Mamba and State Space Models

An Alternative to Transformers for Language Modeling

How to think about HTML responsive images · Dan Cătălin Burzo

srcset, sizes, picture, source, and how they all fit.

The UX of UUIDs | Unkey

Unique identifiers play a crucial role in all applications, from user authentication to resource man...

Half-Quadratic Quantization

An in-depth article discussing the intricacies of efficient model quantization in machine learning a...

Answer.AI - You can now train a 70b language model at home

We’re releasing an open source system, based on FSDP and QLoRA, that can train a 70b model on two 24...

My favourite animation trick: exponential smoothing

I write stuff about math, simulation, graphics, gamedev, and programming.

Training great LLMs entirely from ground zero in the wilderness as a s...

Chronicles of training strong LLMs from scratch in the wild

Beyond Self-Attention: How a Small Language Model Predicts the Next To...

A deep dive into the internals of a small transformer model to learn how it turns self-attention cal...

Bill's World

I'm stuck in 1999 on GeoCities! I've made this time portal so you future people can visit my site.

Way Enough - Fine-tuning gpt-3.5-turbo to learn to play "Connections"

Uncensored Models

I am publishing this because many people are asking me how I did it, so I will explain. https://hugg...

The Girls in Their Summer Dresses

This Web site is dedicated to the wonderful world of the short story and to all who enjoy reading sh...

Attending NeurIPS 2023

A simulation of me: fine-tuning an LLM on 240k text messages - Edward ...

Armed with a download of my 240,000 text message and Whatsapp history, I was able to fine-tune an LL...

Will scaling work?

Data bottlenecks, generalization benchmarks, primate evolution, intelligence as compression, world m...

World Models

Can agents learn inside of their own dreams?

math team

and other horrible things you do to get into stanford

The Great AI Weirding

Or how AI will put you in recursive rat races if you let it, and you probably will.

Too Much Information

What if, hear me out, we are writing too many papers?

Fantasy Map Brushes

Welcome to a project I call #NoBadMaps. Here you will find brush sets and tools to create fantasy ma...

GitHub - moddio/moddio2: HTML5 multiplayer game engine

HTML5 multiplayer game engine. Contribute to moddio/moddio2 development by creating an account on Gi...

Blogging Like a Hacker

Making Synthesized Sounds More Acoustic

I have been experimenting a lot with finding ways to get more acoustic sounds out of synthesizers.

Speculative Decoding for 2x Faster Whisper Inference

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open s...

Simulating Fluids, Fire, and Smoke in Real-Time

Wordle Solving Robot

We've made a wordle solving robot! As usual, we're sponsored by https://www.PCBWay.com/?from=atomic.

SMERF

Project page for SMERF: Streamable Memory Efficient Radiance Fields for Real-Time Large-Scene Explor...

His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent.

Who was Thomas Buchler, the late creator of beloved Torah program 'TropeTrainer'? And can anything b...

Quit Your Job

Frank Chimero · The Web’s Grain

Frank Chimero’s Personal Website

The Placeholder Girlfriend

It became real when I saw the list. When I saw the rubric.

LLM Visualization

A 3D animated visualization of an LLM with a walkthrough.

My $500M Mars Rover Mistake: A Failure Story — Chris Lewicki

Some mistakes feel worse than death.

Writing Documentation for Your House

Have you considered writing documentation for your house?

Kiwi Hellenist: The camel, the rope, and the needle's eye

Many popular beliefs about ancient Greece and Rome are misconceptions.

FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine agrees Loyal’s data supports reason...

A historic milestone in developing the first drug for healthy lifespan extension in dogs

GitMounter // -dealloc

An old toy project for browsing the contents of a git repo as a filesystem.

Portuguese Orange, Persian Portugal - Untested

Portuguese Orange, Persian Portugal - Untested

Quanta Magazine

Quantum algorithms can find their way out of mazes exponentially faster than classical ones, at the ...

Scientists finally succeed in growing dolomite in the lab by dissolvin...

For 200 years, scientists have failed to grow a common mineral in the laboratory under the condition...

He thought tending bar sounded like fun.

Bill McCamley was NM's labor secretary, but working at a local movie theater taught him the truth ab...

S3 Express is All You Need - WarpStream

The future of modern data infrastructure is object storage

Parsing 8-bit integers quickly – Daniel Lemire's blog

Suppose that you want to parse quickly 8-bit integers (0, 1, 2, …, 254, 255) from an ASCII/UTF-8 str...

Unity Software to cut 3.8% of staff in 'company reset' | Reuters

Videogame software provider Unity Software will eliminate 265 jobs or 3.8% of its global workforce a...