hello, i'm clara

swe · ai engineer · perpetually curious human

Currently exploring agents, software design, and how AI is fundamentally reshaping engineering.

This is a collection of thoughts and deep dives, written entirely by a human.

What I write about

ai engineering

evals · agents · devExp

4 posts

software design

architecture · patterns · ux

3 posts

musings

career · teaching

1 post

My picks

ai eng

AI engineering and evals as new layers of software work

How to maintain reliability in inherently stochastic systems

Jan 2026 · short note

software

Multithreading, multiprocessing, and asyncio

How to choose the right concurrency model

Dec 2024 · deep dive

software

RabbitMQ & Python's Celery: How to optimise your queues?

A practical guide to message brokers, routing, and production pitfalls

Oct 2025 · deep dive

What I'm reading

Addy Osmani

Simply enjoy his series of books with ORelly and other technical content

YC lightcone

I listen to the podcast while on the go - it's all about startups and latest trends in tech/AI

My latest articles

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Lessons learnt from upgrading to LangChain 1.0 in production

Mar 2026 · short note · What worked, what broke, and why I did it

ai eng

AI engineering and evals as new layers of software work

Jan 2026 · short note · How to maintain reliability in inherently stochastic systems

ai eng

RabbitMQ & Python's Celery: How to optimise your queues?

Oct 2025 · deep dive · A practical guide to message brokers, routing, and production pitfalls

software

How to level up your technical skills in this AI era & contribute to open source

Jun 2025 · short note · AI tools & vibe coding have hidden tradeoffs — why open source is a great secret weapon

musings

How LLMs work: reinforcement learning, RLHF, DeepSeek R1, OpenAI o1, AlphaGo

Apr 2025 · deep dive · Part 2 of the LLM deep dive

ai eng