What Did Tencent AI Leader Shunyu Yao Discuss in This Podcast?

Drawing on Latent Space’s interview with Shunyu Yao, this article reviews ReAct, Reflexion, Tree of Thoughts, memory, benchmarks, ACI, and Agent UX, and summarizes the importance of tools, environments, evaluation, and interface design when putting AI agents into practice.

May 24, 2026 · 15 min · 2983 words · Andy SI
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When an LLM's Inner State and Its Words Diverge: A Master Key to Understanding LLM Behavior

Using the bandwidth gap between hidden states and tokens, this article offers one explanation for LLM engineering phenomena such as Chain of Thought, prompt length, few-shot learning, personality drift, and hallucinations.

May 2, 2026 · 16 min · 3265 words · Andy SI
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The Complete Best-Practices Guide to Prompt Engineering

A long-form Prompt Engineering guide for AI application engineers, covering foundational principles, context design, task chains, injection defenses, agent prompt design, and evaluation-driven development.

March 11, 2026 · 19 min · 4045 words · Andy SI
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The Complete Guide to LLM Chain-of-Thought (CoT)

Understand what LLM Chain-of-Thought (CoT) is and how prompt engineering can elicit Chain-of-Thought (CoT) from an LLM.

March 4, 2026 · 12 min · 2430 words · Andy SI
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