Steven's Knowledge

Artificial Intelligence

Notes on the AI stack — from the math underneath models to the patterns for shipping AI-powered products

AI moved from a research curiosity to an everyday building block faster than most engineering disciplines have ever shifted. This section is my working notebook for the field: the foundations that make modern models work, the model families themselves, the engineering patterns that turn raw model capability into useful products, and the operational discipline required to run those products in the real world.

This guide covers the following areas:

Foundations

RLHF & Alignment

Reasoning & Chain of Thought

Large Language Models

Prompt Engineering

Long Context

Data Engineering

Agents

AI Applications

Retrieval & Vector Databases

Multimodal Deep Dive

AI UX & Product Design

Solutions & Use Cases

AI Engineering

Caching Strategies

AI Testing & Quality

MLOps

Safety & Alignment

Governance & Compliance

AI Infrastructure

Training Infrastructure

Developer Toolkit

Standards & Protocols

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