Books

Master language models through mathematics, illustrations, and code―and build your own from scratch!

A clear, illustrated guide to large language models, covering key concepts and practical applications. Ideal for projects, interviews, or personal learning.

AI can write code faster than any human can review it. That changes the economics of engineering, but not what engineering is for. The bottleneck has moved from building to judging —and judgment cannot be prompt-engineered into a system designed for cheap proposals.

Skip the black-box frameworks. Build a production-grade AI coding agent from scratch in pure Python - cloud or local, tested with pytest, all in a single file.

The engineer's guide to RAG systems that survive a deploy.

Learn Claude Code by building real projects. This hands-on companion turns the Claude Code Masterclass workshop into a practical self-paced guide for planning, coding, testing, reviewing, refactoring, and shipping software with AI.

A practical, project-driven manual for engineers who want to understand how modern language models are built — and where they fail — by writing every layer themselves. From a scalar autograd engine to RLHF to fused specialists, in 35 hands-on projects with deliberate sabotage experiments. Build it. Break it. Measure it.

Everything you really need to know in Machine Learning in a hundred pages.

Code Is the Side Effect"Software engineers are not primarily code writers. We are clarity traders — and that hasn't changed."You've seen the demos. The AI builds a whole feature from a sentence. The agent writes tests, fixes the failing ones, opens the PR. It's remarkable.Then you come back three months later. The codebase is a tangle. Nobody knows why anything is the way it is. The agent that built it has no memory of what it decided or why. And every time you ask it to add something new, it breaks two things you didn't know were connected.This is the pattern that nobody talks about. AI coding tools make the easy parts of engineering dramatically easier. They leave the hard parts untouched — and they create new hard parts that didn't exist before.Ways of Working is the book for engineers who want to work with AI agents rather than be gradually replaced by them — who understand that the tools are genuinely powerful and genuinely limited, and want to build practices that get the most from each.What you will actually learnThe world model framework. Before an agent can build anything well, it needs to understand what it's building and why. This book teaches you to give agents what they need: a structured, queryable representation of your architecture, your component contracts, your behavior specifications, and your code patterns. No world model = no sustained agentic development.Intent documentation. The most expensive bug in agentic codebases is not a hallucination — it's a decision made without context. Why is this rule here? Why is this boundary where it is? Agents can't infer rationale from code. You have to write it down.Spec-Kit and formal specifications. GitHub's Spec-Kit brings machine-readable, traceable, CI-verified specifications to engineering teams. This book shows how to use it to turn requirements into agent inputs that are precise enough to generate correct implementations.Graph explainers. Tools like Graphify and Understand-Anything transform codebases and documents into queryable knowledge graphs — giving agents navigable context instead of flat text. This is the memory substrate that makes multi-agent systems reliable at scale.Agent architecture that holds. What makes an agent coherently itself? When do file-based agent systems break down and what replaces them? How does constraint-based coordination (borrowed from holocracy) solve the autonomy-coherence problem that has stumped AI researchers for decades?Claude Code, for real. A complete treatment of Claude Code's CLAUDE.md convention, permission model, hooks, and slash commands. Plus the oh-my-claudecode ecosystem: 15+ specialized agents, workflow orchestration patterns (autopilot, ralph, ultrawork), and the skills framework for team-specific automation.The AI-native organization. What genuine AI-native teams look like beneath the marketing. How to hire, structure, and lead them. What language-oriented programming and constrained natural language mean for the future of the human-code relationship.Who it's forEngineers who are past the "should I use AI?" question and into the "how do I use it without losing my engineering integrity?" question.Senior engineers. Engineering managers. Technical leaders. People who have noticed that the more they delegate to AI, the less certain they feel — and who want to understand why.From the AuthorI've been building production systems with AI agents for years. Not demos — systems that had to work reliably across months, maintain themselves as requirements changed, and produce outputs that engineers could understand and defend.That experience has made me skeptical in both directions.Skeptical of the "AI will do everything" vision — because I've watched too many AI-generated codebases collapse under the weight of accumulated misunderstanding.Equally skeptical of the "nothing fundamentally changed" position — because the engineers who treat AI coding tools as just faster autocomplete are making a category error they'll pay for in months of maintenance debt.Something genuinely new is happening. This book is my attempt to think about it clearly.

The book highlights the significance of software in systems engineering and uses AI as a subject matter expert. It presents a comprehensive example that covers SysML modeling, including requirements, use cases, logical/ physical architecture, and parametric simulation. It then continues into software, leveraging AI's code generation capabilities to produce software including microcontroller, UI, and DMBS code. It introduces a variety of personas and agents that can help engineers communicate with AI about systems and software engineering. The book also introduces SysML v2, focusing on the new language model and exploring AI's ability to generate models via code generation. Perhaps most importantly, it provides a straightforward roadmap for hardware/software co-design, accelerated at every step by AI. Whether you're a systems or software engineer, or just interested in how to use AI for engineering, AI Assisted MBSE with SysML will prove to be a valuable guide.

Unlock the power of AI in your applications with this groundbreaking book on AI-driven application architecture. Discover practical patterns and principles for building intelligent, adaptive, and user-centric software systems that harness the potential of large language models and AI components.

"Data Science Project: An Inductive Learning Approach" provides a comprehensive methodology for data science project development, emphasizing software engineering principles essential for reliable solutions. Dr. Filipe Verri, a senior data science project manager, guides readers through the origins, scope, and key concepts of data science. This book covers machine learning, data handling, and rigorous validation techniques, all essential for preparing readers to tackle complex, real-world projects.

It's never been easier to build an AI agent — and never been harder to make one that actually works. This book takes you from language model foundations to production-ready multi-agent systems with the depth to predict failure before it happens, engineer graceful degradation over catastrophic failure, and take absolute architectural ownership. Get the paperback from amazon.

You have been using AI as a faster keyboard.The engineers who will define the next decade are using it as a cognitive workforce they direct, constrain, and govern. The gap between those two practices is not a matter of better prompts. It is a matter of an entirely different mental model.This book is that mental model. Built from first principles. Illustrated through 28 chapters of real architectural decisions, real failures, and real production systems.From execution to orchestration. The complete practitioner guide.

Prompt engineering is dying. The future belongs to domain language engineers—developers who design structured DSLs that make AI reliable, deterministic, and scalable. This practical guide teaches you how to build the languages that shape AI-driven software. With templates, and real-world examples, you'll transform from AI user to AI architect. Stop negotiating with ChatGPT. Start engineering systems that work.