hello, i'm clara

product driven ai engineer · perpetually curious human

Interested in agents, software design, & how AI is reshaping the way I ship features.

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

What I write about

ai engineering

evals · agents · devExp

5 posts

software design

architecture · patterns · ux

3 posts

musings

career · teaching

1 post

My picks

ai eng

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

Part 2 of the LLM deep dive

Apr 2025 · deep dive

software

Multithreading, multiprocessing, and asyncio

How to choose the right concurrency model

Dec 2024 · deep dive

ai eng

Context engineering for AI agents

How to optimize context, a precious finite resource for AI agents

Apr 2026 · 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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Context engineering for AI agents

Apr 2026 · deep dive · How to optimize context, a precious finite resource for AI agents

ai eng

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