Studies

Studies for AI-native engineers.

Interactive diagrams and long-form studies on transformers, agentic systems, and AI engineering.

01 Lecture notes · PDF 148 pages, read at your pace

Transformers from First Principles

Free lecture notes as a 148-page PDF: build a transformer one block at a time, from the next-word problem to designing your own model, with every matrix drawn and every number computed and checked.

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02 Interactive diagram Explore at your pace

Qwen architecture

Follow a token through a 3D transformer. Inspect the matrices, attention, gradients and training batches in a small, working Qwen-style teaching model.

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03 A Worked AI-Native Engineering Build Long technical read

Engineering a CI-Triage Decision System

A ground-up technical study of Kirti's cost-sensitive CI-triage system: labels, trust gates, observers, evidence contracts, fusion, distillation, and human judgment around AI-assisted coding.

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04 An AI-Native Engineering Study Long read

Designing an AI Pull-Request Review Agent

A first-principles architecture study of a production-grade AI pull-request review agent: specialist reasoners, grounded context, orchestration, memory, evaluation, observability, and human review.

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