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The AI Engineer

Owain Lewis

The practical AI newsletter for engineers who build. Every week: tutorials, frameworks, and real lessons to help you ship agents, automate your work, and become the engineer everyone asks for help.

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Latest Issues

The 7 skills I actually use every day with AI coding agents

If you spend any time in AI engineering circles online, you’ll quickly get the impression that being productive with coding agents requires hundreds of skills, dozens of MCP servers, an insane workflow, and a wall of plugins blinking at you...

9 days ago
7

Is Pi better than Claude Code?

I spent last week using Pi as my main coding agent, which was an interesting exercise because Pi is radically different coding agent compared to Claude Code or Codex.

If you have not come across it, Pi is an open source coding agent that h...

a month ago
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Six RAG strategies, explained simply (with code).

Most RAG tutorials jump straight to vector embeddings. Half the time, that’s the wrong tool.

RAG means retrieval augmented generation. Retrieve information, add it to the prompt, let the model answer using it as context. The retrieval part...

2 months ago
13

How I Use AI To Review AI Code

We're offloading more and more of our coding to AI agents. But AI-generated code has more bugs, security issues, and logic errors than human-written code — and we're generating it faster than any team can review it.

The answer isn’t to ski...

2 months ago
7

How I delegate work to a team of AI agents

Hey 👋,

Most of us are using AI coding agents the same way. You’re in the terminal, you’re very involved. You prompt, you review, you go back and forth. This is still the right way to work in many cases. We need to be in the loop to keep q...

2 months ago
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