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Browse 30 practical software engineering resources tagged with "ai". Discover code recipes, design patterns, documentation templates, and in-depth guides to help you build, deploy, and maintain production-ready solutions involving ai.

Build Autonomous AI Agents with Tool Use and Reasoning

How to design AI agents that autonomously plan, execute tools, and iterate toward goals using ReAct, function calling, and memory architectures.

AI Agents with Tool Use

Build autonomous AI agents that can use external tools and APIs to accomplish complex tasks.

Create a Chatbot with OpenAI Assistants API

How to create an AI chatbot using the OpenAI Assistants API with function calling and file retrieval

Generate Images Programmatically with AI Models

How to create, edit, and optimize images using DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney APIs with prompt engineering, batch processing, and content moderation.

Fine-Tune a Language Model for Code Generation

How to fine-tune a large language model for domain-specific code generation using LoRA, QLoRA, and custom datasets

Apply Prompt Engineering: What Works

How to write useful prompts for LLMs using role assignment, few-shot examples, chain-of-thought reasoning, and structured output formatting.

Build a RAG Pipeline with LangChain and Vector Databases

How to build a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline using LangChain and vector databases for AI-powered search

Implement Semantic Search with Embeddings

How to implement semantic search using text embeddings and vector similarity search for intelligent document retrieval

Build a Slack Bot with OpenAI GPT-4

How to build a conversational Slack bot powered by OpenAI GPT-4 that responds to mentions and direct messages

Blackboard Pattern

A shared knowledge space where independent specialized modules collaborate to solve complex problems by contributing partial solutions.

AI Agent Design Document Template

Document AI agent architecture, tools, memory, reasoning patterns, safety guardrails, evaluation criteria, and deployment configuration. Includes sections for system prompts, tool definitions, and failure modes.

AI Data Preparation Checklist

Checklist for preparing data for LLM and RAG systems: data collection, cleaning, chunking, embedding, deduplication, PII removal, format validation, quality scoring, and indexing with metrics and thresholds.

AI LLM Cost Tracking Template

Track token usage and costs per feature, model, and user. Includes cost categories, pricing tables, budget alerts, optimization strategies, and reporting templates for LLM API spending.

AI LLM Incident Response Runbook

Operational runbook for LLM production incidents: hallucination events, model outages, cost spikes, safety failures, and degraded quality. Includes severity levels, escalation paths, diagnostic steps, and recovery procedures.

AI LLM Prompt Template Library

A reusable prompt template library for common LLM tasks: summarization, extraction, classification, code review, translation, and structured output with variables, examples, and evaluation criteria.

AI Model Selection Matrix

Compare LLM models by cost, latency, context window, accuracy, and use case. Includes decision criteria, benchmark results, pricing comparison, and recommendations for classification, extraction, summarization, code, and agent tasks.

AI Prompt Version Control Template

Version your LLM prompts with eval scores, change history, rollback support, and A/B testing. Includes prompt metadata schema, changelog format, evaluation tracking, and CI/CD integration for prompt management.

AI RAG Evaluation Checklist

A checklist for evaluating RAG system quality: retrieval accuracy, generation faithfulness, context relevance, answer correctness, citation accuracy, latency, and end-to-end testing with metrics and thresholds.

Complete Guide to AI Agents in Production

Build production AI agents. Covers agent architectures, tool use, planning, memory, multi-agent systems, ReAct patterns, function calling, human-in-the-loop, safety, and deployment patterns for reliable autonomous agents.

Complete Guide to LangChain in Production

Run LangChain in production. Covers chains, agents, memory, tools, LCEL, streaming, callbacks, RAG integration, evaluation, and deployment patterns for reliable LangChain-powered applications.

Complete Guide to LLM Application Architecture

Build production LLM applications end-to-end. Covers API layers, prompt management, streaming, caching, guardrails, observability, evaluation, and deployment patterns for reliable LLM-powered systems.

Complete Guide to LLM Cost Optimization

Optimize LLM costs in production. Covers model routing, prompt compression, caching, batch API, token management, semantic caching, prompt engineering for cost, monitoring, and budget control patterns for LLM applications.

Complete Guide to LLM Evaluation

Evaluate LLM applications in production. Covers RAGAS, LLM-as-judge, human evaluation, A/B testing, hallucination detection, toxicity scoring, regression testing, and building automated evaluation pipelines.

Complete Guide to LLM Prompt Engineering

Write effective prompts for AI models. Covers prompt patterns, few-shot learning, chain-of-thought, RAG, system prompts, temperature tuning, function calling, and evaluation strategies.

Complete Guide to LLM Prompt Engineering

Write effective prompts for AI models. Covers prompt patterns, few-shot learning, chain-of-thought, RAG, system prompts, temperature tuning, function calling, and evaluation strategies.

Complete Guide to LLM Security

Secure LLM applications in production. Covers prompt injection, jailbreaks, data leakage, OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, input validation, output filtering, rate limiting, red teaming, and building secure LLM pipelines with guardrails.

Complete Guide to Local LLM Deployment

Deploy LLMs locally and on-premise. Covers Ollama, vLLM, llama.cpp, LM Studio, model quantization, GPU requirements, serving with API servers, performance tuning, and choosing between local and cloud LLM deployment.

Complete Guide to OpenAI API Mastery

Master the OpenAI API in production. Covers chat completions, streaming, function calling, structured outputs, embeddings, fine-tuning, batch API, assistants API, rate limits, error handling, and cost optimization patterns.

Complete Guide to RAG in Production

Build production RAG systems. Covers chunking strategies, embedding models, vector stores, retrieval optimization, reranking, hybrid search, evaluation, and deployment patterns for reliable retrieval-augmented generation.

Complete Guide to Vector Databases

Compare and use vector databases in production. Covers Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, pgvector, Milvus, and Qdrant. Includes indexing, similarity search, filtering, scaling, benchmarking, and choosing the right vector database.