Beyond the Hype: Essential Reads on AI and LLMs

Collection of interesting reads about AI and LLMs - Articles, blogposts, forum comments etc.

Listed in no particular order:

Things I have read:

• Generative AI exists because of the transformer
• How Context7 MCP works under the hood?
• Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding: While this is written for Claude Code by Anthropic team, you can adopt these practices in just about any IDE by tinkering.
• Prompt Engineering: Guide by Google. Teaches about prompting techniques such as Chain of Thought (CoT), Tree of Thought (ToT), Step back prompting etc.
• Vibe Prototyping & Cursor: Three of my biggest learnings are the sections on:
  • Structure of taxonomy.md
  • Context rot
  • Using AI as a product & design sparring (/brainstorming/soundboarding) partner
• To understand theory underlying LLMs:
  • What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? written by Stephen Wolfram (of Wolfram|Alpha and Mathematica fame)
  • Generative AI exists because of the transformer published on ft.com
• Effective context engineering for AI agents
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Things I'm yet to explore:

• Different approaches to code with AI:
  • Agents.md
  • Spec Driven Development
    • https://github.com/Fission-AI/OpenSpec
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1nomd8t/specdriven_development_is_underhyped_heres_how/
    • https://github.com/Pimzino/spec-workflow-mcp
    • https://github.com/github/spec-kit
    • https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/spec-driven-development-with-ai-get-started-with-a-new-open-source-toolkit/
    • https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/sdd-3-tools.html
  • Embeddings model: Chroma vs Milvus lite etc
  • Architect mode
    • https://forum.cursor.com/t/architect-mode-in-cursor/45395/2
  • BMAD
    • https://github.com/bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD 
  • Authors that write extensively about "Coding with AI", explore their archives:
    • https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai.html
    • https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms/
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  • Detailed first person accounts of people making entire coding projects using AI:
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  • Tips for a better Cursor flow
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTCoding/comments/1hu276s/how_to_use_cursor_more_efficiently/
    • https://cursor.directory/
    • https://cursor.com/docs/integrations/slack
    • https://cursor.com/docs/context/rules
    • https://cursor.com/docs/configuration/worktrees
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1jjd1gw/why_does_the_agent_mode_make_so_many_tool_calls/ (especially comments by user Confident_Chest5567, whose CursorPlus Github project might also be interesting to look at)
  • Tips for better flow inside Claude Code
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1oj109n/claude_skills_are_just_cursorrules_change_my_mind/
  • Heard good things about Taskmaster on reddit:
    • https://github.com/eyaltoledano/claude-task-master
    • https://www.task-master.dev/ 
  • Collect, share and version control prompts
    • https://promptguild.ai/home
  • Miscellaneous 
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTCoding/comments/1j31dfj/i_built_an_opensource_alternative_to_repoprompt/
    • https://repoprompt.com/
    • Ampcode lets you share urls to 'notebooks': https://ampcode.com/threads/T-24dca6a8-1a0a-4377-bfb2-5c4b77f8d3a9
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