Artificial Intelligence
π Books
7_ENTRIESModern & Practical
Foundational
- Designing Machine Learning Systems
Scalable, maintainable ML pipelines (Chip Huyen).
- Generative Deep Learning (2nd Edition)
GANs, VAEs, diffusion models (David Foster).
- AI Engineering
End-to-end AI product building (Chip Huyen).
- 100 Page Language Models Book
This book guides you through the evolution of language models, starting from machine learning fundamentals.
- Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Comprehensive AI theory (Russell & Norvig).
- Deep Learning
Neural networks & architectures (Goodfellow, Bengio, Courville).
- Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (2nd Edition)
RL fundamentals (Sutton & Barto).
π Guides & Playbooks
5_ENTRIES- Building Effective Agents (Anthropic) β β Patterns, pitfalls, and tradeoffs for designing AI agents.
- OpenAI Agents Guide
Practical guide on building agents
- Google AI Agents Paper
Practical guide to building AI agents from Google
- Google Agents Companion Paper
Guide from Google
- OpenAI Cookbook
Example code, recipes, and best practices for working with OpenAI APIs.
- LLM Engineer Handbook
A goldmine of useful links for AI engineers
π€ Frameworks
6_ENTRIES- PocketFlow
Extremely minimalist AI agent framework in just 100 lines of code. Fantastic way to learn.
- Google ADK
Google's Agent Development Kit (Python, Java). Great local development experience + A2A + MCP.
- Pydantic-AI
Typed, structured LLM orchestration framework built on Pydantic models for safe, predictable outputs.
- LangGraph
Build multi-agent workflows with stateful graphs on top of LangChain.
- CrewAI
Agent orchestration with structured tasks and human-in-the-loop controls.
- AutoGen
Microsoftβs framework for multi-agent conversation and collaboration.
π¦ Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
3_ENTRIES- LlamaIndex
Data framework for ingesting, indexing, and querying private data with LLMs.
- Haystack
Open-source search/RAG framework with modular pipelines.
- Docling
Great library for ingesting any kind of document for RAG β
Evals
1_ENTRIES- OpenAI Evals
OpenAI's framework for writing evals
π Landmark Papers
4_ENTRIESResearch that shaped modern AI β worth reading to understand the "why" behind todayβs architectures.
- Attention Is All You Need
Transformer architecture.
- Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models
Model/data/compute scaling.
- Language Models are Few-Shot Learners
GPT-3 capabilities.
- Constitutional AI
Safer model alignment.
π Courses
9_ENTRIESLearn from the best β structured content for every level.
Beginner
- Fast.ai β Practical Deep Learning
Intermediate / Advanced
π° Newsletters
4_ENTRIESStay current with AI developments without drowning in noise.
π¬ Models
8_ENTRIES- ChatGPT
Best for general coding + reasoning.
- Claude
Best for long-context analysis and structured thinking.
- Gemini
Best for Google ecosystem integration.
- Perplexity
Best for quick research with live citations.
- Cohere
Best for enterprise LLMs with strong retrieval-augmented generation APIs.
- Mistral
Best for lightweight, high-performance open-weight models.
- Qwen
Best for multilingual and Chinese-first applications.
- DeepSeek
Best for efficient, cost-optimized large models with competitive reasoning.
π¨βπ» Code & Developer Tools
3_ENTRIES- Claude Code
IDE extensions with long-context code edits.
- GitHub Copilot
In-IDE code completion, chat, and refactors.
- Cursor
LLM-powered IDE for multi-file edits and codebase-aware chat.
πΌ Image
5_ENTRIES- ChatGPT-4o Image Generation
Integrated image creation with style control.
- Midjourney
Artistic and photorealistic images and video.
- Adobe Firefly
Integrated into Creative Cloud.
- Ideogram
Precise, legible text in generated images.
- Flux
High-res, prompt-editable images.
π₯ Video
3_ENTRIES- Kling
Cinematic, realistic video generation.
- Google Veo 3
High-quality video with synchronized audio.
- Runway
Video editing + generation.
π Audio
3_ENTRIES- ElevenLabs
High-quality text-to-speech.
- Suno
AI music from text prompts.
- Aiva
Music composition for media.