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The Tech Buffet #29: The AI Engineer Interview Guide I Wish I Had (opens the original)
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AI Engineer interviews have become ridiculously broad. You can be asked to explain a RAG pipeline, debug an agent, discuss Transformer internals, compare Agents with a simpler workflow, design an evaluation strategy, and then explain what breaks when traffic grows 10×.Trying to memorize a hundred interview questions is the wrong way to prepare.Most of those questions are variations of the same few problems: can you explain what you built, justify your architecture, diagnose failures, measure qua
The Tech Buffet #28: Understanding MCP Beyond the Hype (opens the original)
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Hello and thanks for reading The Tech Buffet. Consider subscribing if you enjoy practical AI and engineering posts like this one. I’ll also start sharing premium resources in upcoming issues, including templates, code, and other material you can reuse in your own projects.Subscribe nowIf you’ve been following my recent Claude Code series, you’ve probably seen MCP mentioned more than once. Claude Code can
The Tech Buffet #27: Use Claude Skills and Stop Writing the Same Prompt Twice (opens the original)
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Hey everyone, Ahmed here, back with the third post of this Claude Code series. If you missed the first two issues, you can find them here and here.Subscribe nowLet’s say you’re reviewing a Python change before merging it. You ask Claude to look for bugs, edge cases, missing tests and
The Tech Buffet #26: GPT-6 Astra, One Week In (opens the original)
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Hey 👋 Ahmed here.I wasn’t planning to write about a model launch this week. The Claude Code series, started with post 1 and post 2 was supposed to continue with Skills, and it will — next issue, I promise.But OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3rd, and enough of you have emailed asking whether it’s worth switching to that it seemed worth a detour.<e
The Tech Buffet #25: From a Messy CLAUDE.md to a Useful One (opens the original)
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Hey 👋 Ahmed here, back with issue two of this Claude Code series.If you’re new here: this is a hands-on series where we learn Claude Code by actually using it, one small real task at a time.In issue one, we cloned an open-source FastAPI repo and used Claude to explore and safely extend it.The Tech Buffet is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts a
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