Worth Reading

Below is a list of articles I've saved or returned to regularly on various engineering topics, which I am gradually exporting from my old list in Notes.

AI

Building AI Products—Part I: Back-end Architecture (Phil Calçado)

Phil Calçado shares the technical journey of developing an AI-powered Chief of Staff tool that scaled to 10,000 users, ultimately leading to the creation of Outropy, a developer platform for building AI products. As expected, Phil brings solid engineering experience, principles, and patterns to the design of an agentic system. He outlines some of the paths and trade-offs taken in designing Outropy.