Agents

• Anthropic: Agents - Terminology between Workflow and Agents. Reminds me of Google's Rules for ML.
• Anthropic: Evals - Explains the need for the evaluation harness as well as the agent harness. Don't reivent the DS wheel: use tried and true tools (A/B tests) to compare performance.
• Karpathy: LLM Wiki - Make an LLM manage your knowledge base, just like it manages your codebase.

AI Coding

• Claude Code Walkthrough - Best tutorial I've found on Claude Code setup.
• AIE: Agentic Engineering - Concise graphic showing 4 ways to manage the context window.

Transformers

• The Illustrated Transformer - Jay Alammar's visual explanation of the Transformer architecture.
• The Annotated Transformer - Improves on Jay's explanation with code and implementation details.
• Zero to Hero Playlist - Andrej Karpathy continues to impress. We went through this together as a team in 2025.

Newsletters and Blogs

• Software Lead Weekly - This is the one newsletter I open every week without fail.
• Lilian Weng's Blog - This is usually a first stop when I want to learn more about a new AI/ML topic.
• Ruder's Newsletter - Less active now, but still has some great insights.
• Sebastian Raschka's AI Magazine - His books and code tutorials are amazing as well.

Technical Management

• StaffEng.com. These stories helped set expectations for my transtion into a Staff role.
• The Effective Manager by Mark Horstman. This helped me see management as a technical discipline, complete with skills and tools.
• Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet. Recommended to me by a Staff Engineer I was managing because I was struggling with delegation and empowerment. Reads like a biography.
• Leadership That Gets Results by Daniel Goleman. Management styles are not identities; they are yet another tool in the toolbox.
• The Little Book of Trust by Charles Feltman. Recommended to me by another engineering manager. It shows how trust is "built" and "earned" rather than being a feeling that exists.
• No Ego by Cy Wakeman. Recommended to me by my wife. Calling ourselves to a high standard of ownership is as helpful in parenting as it is in management.
• High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove. Metrics and systems are important for managing toward outcomes.
• The 6 Types of Working Genius by Patrick Lencioni. The book meanders but the test packs a punch. I scored high for Wonder and Invention. My frustrations are Discernment and Tenacity.