McKay Johns
Writing about AI, developing with AI, and building AI applications
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Top AI Engineering Skills for 2026
Happy New Year everyone!
2026 is going to be a great year and is a year that I am personally excited for in both my personal life and career.
Over the next decade, AI is going to be one of the best opportunities for both career and skill...
Get the Most Out of Claude Code
Claude Code has been making the rounds over the past couple of days due to a couple of tweets from Andrej Karpathy
And this one from the actual creator of Claude Code, Boris Cherny
Funny enough, Claude code was a side project for him, now...
An Update and What's Next
Hey everyone,
Over the past couple months you may (or may have not haha) noticed I haven’t written an email, posted a YouTube video, and have been pretty inactive on other social media platforms.
I’ve been taking a break from content and...
How to Use Physical Data from Fotmob & Sofascore
A new season of football has begun which means more data to comb over and use in our analysis!
Just recently, Fotmob and Sofascore released physical data for the Premier League, which is a great addition in being able to understand some o...
How to Build a Chatbot
When you think of recent AI developments, chatbots are what usually come to mind.
ChatGPT, Grok, Perplexity, Claude.
They are all essentially a well engineered wrapper around large language models that allow an end user to “chat” with tha...
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