Agent = Model + Harness

LangChain’s breakdown of the agent harness connects context engineering, memory, MCP, and the agent loop into one coherent map.

March 18, 2026 · 6 min · 1167 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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Apple M5 vs. M4: A Practical Comparison for AI Engineers

A practical breakdown for AI engineers of what the M5’s changes over the M4—from CPU, cache, and memory bandwidth to Neural Accelerators—mean for local LLM and diffusion inference.

March 6, 2026 · 13 min · 2757 words · Andy SI
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What Is an LLM API KV Cache?

KV Cache is a key concept connecting Transformer theory with LLM engineering and deployment. Understanding it completes the path from how a model computes to how it runs.

March 5, 2026 · 17 min · 3558 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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Prompt Engineering: From Principles to Practice

Prompt engineering? It may not be as simple as you think.

March 3, 2026 · 20 min · 4215 words · Andy SI
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Prompt Injection

Understand LLM prompt injection and several fundamental defensive measures.

March 3, 2026 · 11 min · 2278 words · Andy SI
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Understanding the Mathematical Intuition Behind Transformers

This article gave me—and may give you—a deeper understanding of the basic principles behind Transformers, replacing a black-box view of today’s mainstream LLMs. Cheers!

February 24, 2026 · 18 min · 3726 words · Andy SI
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