AI Nerd Notes

Keeping up with AI Trends (Firehose)

• Safari
  • Recorded Safari Live Events
  • ai-agents Playlist
• Udemy
  • Udemy My Learning
• YouTube
  • Channels:
    • AI Engineer Channel
    • MCP Developers Summit Channel
    • MCP Dev Days Playlist
  • Watch Later Playlists:
    • AI Watch Later Playlist
    • AI Agents Watch Later Playlist
    • AI Security Watch Later Playlist
    • AI Coding Watch Later Playlist
    • System Design Watch Later Playlist
    • Python Watch Later Playlist
  • Awesome Playlists:
    • AI-Agents-Awesome Playlist
    • AI-Security-Awesome Playlist
    • AI-Coding-Awesome Playlist
    • AI-News-Trends-Awesome Playlist
• Gmail
  • anand-links
  • ai-coding
  • ai-evals
• Chrome bookmarks
  • AI
• X
  • For You
  • AI Nerds
• Cisco Webex
  • Flagged Messages
  • CIRCUIT Agent Guide: Build and Secure an Agent
  • CIRCUIT A2A LangGraph Quickstart
  • CIRCUIT A2A Agent Sample
• Past OneTab Links
  • Links infirehose/to-be-reviewed

AI Engineering

Augmenting Context with Prompts and RAG

• Books:
  • 🔥 A Simple Guide to Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Source: Apple Books
  • Enteprise RAG, Source: Apple Books
  • Prompt Engineering for LLMs, Source: Safari Books
  • Prompt Engineering for Generative AI, Source: Safari Books
  • Context Engineering for AI Agents, Source: Blog
• Videos:
  • [O'Reilly] Optimizing LLMs with Fine-Tuning and Prompt Engineering
  • [O'Reilly] Building Reliable RAG Applications: From PoC to Production
  • [O'Reilly] RAG and AI Applications for Cybersecurity and Networking Professionals
  • [O'Reilly] AI Memory Management in Agentic Systems
  • [O'Reilly] Context Engineering Clearly Explained
  • [YouTube] Videos related to "Prompt" from AI Engineer

Building AI Agents

• Books:
  • 🔥 Agentic Design Patterns, Antonio Gill Google Doc
  • 🔥 AI Agents and Applications, Source: Apple Books
  • Learning LangChain, Source: Book
  • AI Agents in Action, Source: Apple Books
  • Building Applications with AI Agents, Source: Safari Books
• Videos:
  • [Udemy] LLM Engineering: Master AI, Large Language Models & Agents
  • [O'Reilly] Integrate LLMs with Python
  • [O'Reilly] Agentic RAG with LangGraph
  • [O'Reilly] Getting Started with LLM Agents using LangChain
  • [O'Reilly] Getting Started with LLM Agents using LangGraph
  • [Udemy] LangGraph- Develop LLM powered AI agents with LangGraph
  • [O'Reilly] AI Memory Management in Agentic Systems
  • [O'Reilly] Implementing AI Agents in Python
  • [O'Reilly] AI Agents A-Z
  • [O'Reilly] Building Agents with OpenAI’s GPT Assistants API
  • [Udemy] Automate Everything: n8n, LLMs, OpenAI API, Deepseek, Ollama & RAG! Business & Private AI Agents; More than just ChatGPT
  • [O'Reilly] Hands-On LLM Engineering - Ed Donner
  • [YouTube] Prompting 101
  • [YouTube] Prompting for Agents
  • [YouTube] Videos related to "Agents from AI Engineer
  • [YouTube] Videos related to "LangChain" from AI Engineer

Building MCP Services

• Books:
  • MCP News, Guides, and Analysis, Source: Blog
• Videos:
  • [O'Reilly] Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Software Engineers
  • [O'Reilly] Building AI Agents with Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • [Udemy] Build, Connect, Deploy: Master MCP Servers, MCP Clients, Tools & Resources for Powerful LLM Applications
  • [O'Reilly] Building AI Agents with Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • [O'Reilly] Building AI Agents with Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • [YouTube] From Beginner to Pro MCP Server in One Video
  • [YouTube] Nobody talks about building an MCP Client
  • [YouTube] Building Production-Ready MCP Servers
  • [YouTube] Your API is not an MCP server
  • [YouTube] MCP 201: Power of the Protocol
  • [YouTube] MCP at Sourcegraph
  • [YouTube] From Beginner to Pro MCP Server in One Video
  • [YouTube] Nobody talks about building an MCP Client
  • [YouTube] Building Production-Ready MCP Servers
  • [YouTube] Your API is not an MCP server
  • [YouTube] MCP 201: Power of the Protocol
  • [YouTube] MCP at Sourcegraph
  • [YouTube] Videos related to "MCP" from AI Engineer
  • [YouTube] Videos related to "MCP" from MCP Dev Summit
  • [YouTube] Microsoft MCP Dev Days
  • [YouTube] From Beginner to Pro MCP Server in One Video
  • [YouTube] Building Production-Ready MCP Servers
  • [YouTube] Your API is not an MCP server
  • [YouTube] MCP 201: Power of the Protocol
  • [YouTube] MCP at Sourcegraph
  • [YouTube] Videos related to "MCP" from AI Engineer
  • [YouTube] Videos related to "MCP" from MCP Dev Summit
  • [YouTube] Microsoft MCP Dev Days

AI Security

• Books:
  • An Illustated Guide to OAuth 2.0, Source: Blog
  • We Built the Security Layer MCP Always Needed, Source: Blog
  • MCP Gateway, Source: Blog
  • Docker MCP Catalog and Toolkit, Source: Blog
• Videos:
  • [O'Reilly] Hands-on introduction to OAuth 2.0
  • [YouTube] MCP Auth
  • [YouTube] How to Secure Agents using OAuth — Jared Hanson (Keycard, Passport.js)
  • [YouTube] Videos related to "Security" from AI Engineer

AI Evals & Alignment

• Books:
  • AI Model Evaluation, Manning
  • Application-Centric AI Evals for Engineers and Technical PMs, Source: Blog
  • AI Evals FAQ, Source: Blog
  • Building Reliable AI Systems, Source: Apple Books
• Videos:
  • [Maven] AI Evals for Engineers and PMs
  • [YouTube] Videos related to "Evals" from AI Engineer

Deploying AI Apps

• Books:
  • LLMs in Production, Source: Apple Books
• Videos:
  • [O'Reilly] Large Language Models in Production
  • [O'Reilly] Designing and Deploying LLM Pipelines

Foundational AI

• Build a Large Language Model from Scratch, Source: Apple Books
• Build a Reasoning Model from Scratch, Source: Apple Books
• AI Engineering, Source: Apple Books
• [Manning Video] Master and Build Large Language Models
• [O'Reilly] Fine-tuning Open-Source Large Language Models

AI Mathematics

• Mathematics for Machine Learning, Source: Apple Books
• Statistics for Every Programmer, Source: Apple Books
• [Udemy] Essential Linear Algebra and Calculus Hands-On in NumPy, TensorFlow, and PyTorch

Foundational AI

• Reasoning Engines - Antonio Gill, Google Distinguished Engineer
• Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and PyTorch, Safari Book
• Hugging Face in Action, Source: Apple Books
• [O'Reilly] Hugging Face in 4 Hours
• Ml/DL using Python, PyTorch Books...

Agentic Coding

• [O'Reilly] Comparing Cursor, Copilot, and Windsurf

Cursor

• [O'Reilly] Cursor for Software Engineers
• Cisco Webinars on Cursor

Claude Code

• [O'Reilly] Agentic Coding with Claude Code
• [YouTube] Vibe Coding in Prod

Others

• Cisco Webinars on Windsurf
• Cisco Webinars on VSCode + Copilot

Storytelling using AI

• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Miro
• Canva
• Figma

Cloud Native Software Engineering

• Python, Rust
• Containers, Kubernetes
• Postgres, MongoDB, Redis
• AWS IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda
• CLI Tools
  • nvim
  • git
  • jq
  • curl