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AGENTS.md, skills, MCP, sandboxes, tests, and review agents are not random tricks.

Reddit is one of the best sources for practical cooking tips. I gave an AI agent a task to explore the cooking subreddits for useful and unconventional advice.

Strategies that worked for me when I left a salaried job to consult on my own.

Anthropic accidentally shipped a source map in their npm package, exposing the full Claude Code source. Here's what I found inside.

Step-by-step guide to configuring separate Git profiles for work and personal projects using SSH keys and conditional includes.

Comparing how DeepSeek R1 and OpenAI O3 reason about the economic impact of US-Canada tariffs.

A complete guide to orchestrating LLM fine-tuning on Kubernetes using SkyPilot for resource management and MLflow for experiment tracking.

A comprehensive mental model for understanding Kubernetes concepts, from clusters and pods to services and storage.

A practical guide to SLURM for ML practitioners covering fundamental concepts, key commands, and distributed multi-node training.

Demonstrating OpenAI's function calling API to convert natural language queries into SQL against the Northwind database.

This post describes a production ML pipeline for fine-tuning large language models using DVC, SkyPilot, HuggingFace Transformers, and quantization techniques.

Why minimizing context switches and staying in deep focus leads to faster understanding of difficult concepts.

How to use SkyPilot and DVC to run reproducible ML experiments in the cloud without infrastructure headaches.

The role of sales engineers in B2B startups and why they're essential for selling enterprise software.

Why teaching is the most powerful way to learn, backed by the Feynman Technique and the Protege Effect.