Training & Adaptation Strategy

1. What approaches exist for training or adapting an LLM? — Pretraining, fine-tuning, instruction tuning, prompt engineering, RAG.

2. Base model vs instruction-tuned model? — Pure next-token predictor vs one aligned to follow instructions.

3. When would you choose fine-tuning over RAG? — Stable domain knowledge, style/format control, latency sensitivity.

4. When would …

A starter question bank for screening entry-level GenAI engineers. Grouped by theme, covering fundamentals through production concerns.

Fundamentals

1. What is generative AI vs discriminative AI? — Generative models learn to produce new data; discriminative models learn decision boundaries to classify or predict.

2. What is a large language model (LLM)? — A neural …

NemoClaw is NVIDIA's agent sandbox that lets you run AI assistants locally using your own inference backend — Ollama, llama.cpp, or cloud providers. It bundles OpenShell as a gateway and OpenClaw as the agent runtime, all orchestrated through Docker containers.

Here's a walkthrough of setting it up from scratch.

Setup …

"The issue isn't the coding agent's coding ability, but our approach.
We treat coding agents like search engines when we should be treating them
more like literal-minded pair programmers."
— Den Delimarsky, GitHub Principal Product Manager

The Problem With Vibe Coding

If you've used an AI coding assistant, you've experienced vibe …

Building reliable AI agents isn't just about picking the right model — it's about the patterns you wire around it. Here's a concise reference of 15 agentic system design concepts worth knowing. Two lines each — just enough to understand what they do and why they matter.

Resilience & Failure Isolation

Agent Circuit …

Claude Code is not a chatbot. It lives in your terminal, reads your actual files, writes code, runs commands, and executes multi-step workflows — all with your permission. Here are 30 concepts you need to understand it properly. No fluff, no hand-holding.

The 30 Concepts

1. The Terminal — Claude Code doesn't …

The AI agent ecosystem is growing fast. Here's a quick directory of notable AI startups and a couple of few-shot LLM models worth knowing about. Two lines each — just enough to know what they do and why they matter.

AI Agent Directory

Can of Soup — An AI-powered app that lets …

Why GenAI?

Generative AI has completely changed how I think about software, creativity, and problem-solving. Over the past year, I've gone deep into the world of large language models, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, fine-tuning, and AI agents. The pace of change is incredible, and I wanted a place to document …