Your agent re-reads the same context every step, at 10x the price

Four ways the field is attacking the context bottleneck this week, where the coding-agent fight is really moving, and why "AI is replacing engineers…

Jul 2 • Shivani Virdi

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June 2026

The AI Application Layer: Where Context Engineering Actually Fits

Everyone is renting the same models. The work, and the value, is in what you build around them: the context window, and the three layers that decide…

Jun 26 • Shivani Virdi

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February 2026

The Prompt Lifecycle Every AI Engineer Should Know

Why prompts break in production and what it takes to make them reliable.

Feb 7 • Dimple Sharma

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January 2026

The AI Engineer's Roadmap for 2026

It's been a while. I'm back with a clear plan for overwhelmed engineers. And the most important thing I've ever built for you.

Jan 9 • Shivani Virdi

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July 2025

The Illusion of Illusion... of AI?

A Builder's front row seat to the AI Reasoning Wars and what the Apple vs. Anthropic debate really means for those of us who build.

Jul 7, 2025 • Shivani Virdi

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June 2025

An Engineer's Guide to Fine-Tuning LLMs, Part 2: The Execution Playbook

A deep dive into the methods, fine-tuning pipeline, and operational risks of building specialised models.

Jun 21, 2025 • Shivani Virdi

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An Engineer’s Guide to Fine-Tuning LLMs – Part 1

Understand where fine-tuning fits in the LLM lifecycle, how it compares to prompting or retrieval — and when it’s the right tool for the job.

Jun 12, 2025 • Shivani Virdi

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May 2025

The Dangerous Thing About AI Hype?

Before the Next Deep Dive, A Message for the Builders.

May 23, 2025 • Shivani Virdi

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Inside DeepSeek-R1: A Masterclass in Incentivising Intelligence

What DeepSeek-R1 really teaches us: how to build models that learn, align, and evolve — without millions of labels.

May 15, 2025 • Shivani Virdi

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The Engineer’s Guide to RAG

Make Your Dumb Model Useful: A Dead-Simple Guide to Retrieval-Augmented Generation

May 7, 2025 • Shivani Virdi

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April 2025

Why Every AI Builder Needs to Understand MCP

The Model Context Protocol is redefining how we build with AI. Here’s what it is, why it matters, and how to use it to build your own modular AI Second…

Apr 30, 2025 • Shivani Virdi

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How GPTs Learn to Be Helpful

The missing step between raw model and assistant—and why it matters for builders

Apr 23, 2025 • Shivani Virdi

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