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- 2026-11-02
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- Louis-François Bouchard
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- Covers: Practical AI engineering, LLM benchmarks, agent architectures, model evaluation, and building production machine learning systems.
- For: AI engineers, software developers, and technical leaders building LLM applications.
- Best for: AI practitioners wanting real-world technical evaluations and architecture advice for LLMs.
- Skip if: Non-technical readers looking for general AI news or basic prompt ideas.
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- Stop Building Agent Loops. Start Building Runs.: Explains how to design reliable AI agent workflows instead of brittle loops.
- Open models can't write like Opus yet. Use them anyway.: Evaluates the trade-offs and costs of deploying open-source models at scale.
- What it actually costs to build an AI benchmark: Breaks down real computational costs and scoring mechanics behind building LLM evaluations.
Sponsors seen
- InngestSponsor
This iteration is sponsored by Inngest . The questions and the opinions are my own.
Stop Building Agent Loops. Start Building Runs. · 2026-11-02 - InngestSponsor
first, a quick word from this iteration’s sponsor, Inngest ! (Sponsored) Build for the long run Long-running agents need endurance.
Open models can't write like Opus yet. Use them anyway. · 2026-10-24 - SkyfloSponsor
today’s sponsor, Skyflo , the shared memory layer for your agents. (Sponsored)
I put Gemini in the judge’s seat. It preferred itself · 2026-10-22 - InngestSponsor
(Sponsored) Agent failures shouldn’t mean paying twice Agents will sometimes fail. But that shouldn’t mean restarting an entire workflow. Inngest’s durable execution checkpoints
More Tokens Won't Replace Your Point of View · 2026-09-23 - LlamaIndexSponsor
(Sponsored) I Said PDFs Would Never Work Properly. I Was Wrong. In December 2023 I had Jerry Liu on the podcast and asked how LlamaIndex handled tables
How AI Agents Evolved: From AutoGPT to Claude Code · 2026-09-29 - OpseraSponsor
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Should You Use DeepSeek V4.1 Flash? A Game Changer for AI Engineers? · 2026-09-14