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#163: How I turned NotebookLM into a grounded knowledge layer for PR reviews, design reviews, debugging, and onboarding
Every task used to start the same way for me, and you know this feeling:
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I Teach You AI Engineering & System Design • 0.5M+ Audience
Focused on making AI accessible. What's AI on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts. Co-founder @towards_ai. ex Ph.D. student @Mila_Quebec @polymtl.
Shipping Production AI: Agents, Inference, GPU. Read by 1M+ AI engineers.
Building AI systems that actually work.
I help fullstack developers break out of the mid-tier trap and scale into multi six-figure remote careers.
Senior Backend & AI Engineer passionate about teaching others.
Former tennis pro turned AI builder. Tactical AI workflows, copy-paste frameworks, and counterintuitive strategies that you can put to use same day - no matter your technical background.
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) ☸️ | Writing about Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps.
I'm Kukesh co-founder of modals-ai, an applied-AI lab in Toronto, and Director of Engineering at Launchpad.AI, shipping AI in production at Nike, Mr. Cooper, and Levi's. I write about AI you actually own.
I write about CSS, JavaScript, web dev resources, and solo projects
Data engineer at Digital Power, a data & AI consultancy. I write about AI, data, and personal projects, explaining technical ideas simply and from first principles. Not just how to use tools, but how they work under the hood.
I’m a Solutions Architect exploring how AI systems actually work in the real world. I build with LLMs, experiment with agents, and break down emerging tools and ideas in generative AI.
Ashish is an AI infrastructure specialist and technology educator based in London, specializing in data centers, cloud computing, AI, GenAI, and Agentic AI. Known for simplifying complex topics through storytelling and analogies.
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