AI-engineering reading list

Papers, blog posts, and talks every AI-focused engineer should read.

Foundation

Start with Attention Is All You Need if you want the theory. Skip it if you don't. Either way, read Kaplan et al. on scaling laws.

Practice

The LLM Prompt Engineering guide from OpenAI. Anthropic's prompt best practices. Papers on RAG, fine-tuning, and in-context learning.

Edge cases

Read about jailbreaks not to use them, but to understand the threat model. Read about hallucinations. Read about safety.

Then build something. Reading without building is theater.