software engineering – Andrew Fairless, Ph.D.

What I Read: BAML

By Andrew Fairless on May 28, 2025February 22, 2025

https://thedataquarry.com/posts/baml-is-building-blocks-for-ai-engineers BAML is like building blocks for AI engineersPrashanth Rao2025-02-10 “I’ll explain more about how BAML, a domain-specific language for helping LLMs generate better structured outputs, provides AI engineers theContinue readingWhat I Read: BAML

What I Read: BAML, agentic

By Andrew Fairless on May 27, 2025February 22, 2025

https://thedataquarry.com/posts/baml-and-future-agentic-workflows Why I’m excited about BAML and the future of agentic workflowsPrashanth Rao2025-01-29 “Although there have been new agentic and AI workflow orchestration frameworks coming out seemingly every month latelyContinue readingWhat I Read: BAML, agentic

What I Read: history, tidyverse

By Andrew Fairless on May 13, 2025February 2, 2025

https://hadley.github.io/25-tidyverse-history A personal history of the tidyverseHadley WickhamJanuary 28, 2025 “I’ll explore the defining features that make the tidyverse unique, highlight the contributions that I’m most proud of, and examineContinue readingWhat I Read: history, tidyverse

What I Read: AI, HCI

By Andrew Fairless on April 24, 2025January 28, 2025

https://ianarawjo.medium.com/what-ai-engineers-can-learn-from-qualitative-research-methods-in-hci-5b29b9b7465a What AI engineers can learn from qualitative research methods in HCIIan ArawjoJan 9, 2025 “Meet inductive coding and grounded theory, the new bread-and-butter of LLMOps”

What I Read: Building agents

By Andrew Fairless on April 9, 2025December 31, 2024

https://www.anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents Building effective agentsErik Schluntz and Barry ZhangDec 19, 2024 “Over the past year, we’ve worked with dozens of teams building large language model (LLM) agents across industries. Consistently, theContinue readingWhat I Read: Building agents

What I Read: Implementing Raft

By Andrew Fairless on April 2, 2025December 28, 2024

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2020/implementing-raft-part-0-introduction Implementing Raft: Part 0 – IntroductionFebruary 22, 2020 at 20:33 “The goal of this series of posts is to describe a fully functioning and rigorously tested implementation of Raft,Continue readingWhat I Read: Implementing Raft

What I Read: simulations, chaos testing

By Andrew Fairless on March 24, 2025November 25, 2024

https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/formal-modeling-and-simulation How we use formal modeling, lightweight simulations, and chaos testing to design reliable distributed systemsArun Parthiban, Sesh Nalla, Cecilia Wat-KimNovember 20, 2024 “To analyze a distributed system during itsContinue readingWhat I Read: simulations, chaos testing

What I Read: ship projects

By Andrew Fairless on March 13, 2025November 20, 2024

https://www.seangoedecke.com/how-to-ship How I ship projects at big tech companiessean goedecke “Shipping in a big tech company is a very different skill to writing code, and lots of people who areContinue readingWhat I Read: ship projects

What I Read: Incremental Jobs, Data Quality

By Andrew Fairless on March 12, 2025November 20, 2024

https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2024/11/13/incremental-jobs-and-data-quality-are-on-a-collision-course-part-2-the-way-forward Incremental Jobs and Data Quality Are On a Collision Course – Part 2 – The Way ForwardJack VanlightlyNov 13, 2024 “The thing we’re missing right now is that theContinue readingWhat I Read: Incremental Jobs, Data Quality

What I Read: GPU Computing

By Andrew Fairless on March 4, 2025November 16, 2024

https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/gpu-computing What Every Developer Should Know About GPU ComputingAbhinav UpadhyayOct 18, 2023 “GPUs have become incredibly important because of their pervasive use in deep learning. Today, it is essential forContinue readingWhat I Read: GPU Computing

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