AI Tutorials
August 2, 2026•14 min read
Ship What You Can Name: The AI Release Passport
A practical guide to inventorying models, data, prompts, tools, evidence, and provenance so an exact AI release can be assessed, promoted, and rolled back.
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July 29, 2026•10 min read
From Demo to Dependable System: An AI Readiness Checklist
Before launch, an AI feature needs an owner, evaluation gates, security boundaries, observability, cost limits, fallback, and controlled change.
AI Tutorials
July 23, 2026•12 min read
The AI Vendor Dossier: Buying Evidence, Not a Demo
AI procurement should test the service behind the interface: data handling, evaluations, security, operations, cost, portability, and exit.
AI Tutorials
July 19, 2026•11 min read
The Evidence Trail: Making AI Systems Audit-Ready
Audit-ready AI links every consequential output to its inputs, policy checks, model and tool versions, approvals, actions, and observed outcome.
AI Tutorials
July 15, 2026•11 min read
The Hostile Web: Securing Browser Agents
A browser agent operates inside pages that may be misleading, compromised, or designed to redirect its behavior. The web must remain data—not authority.
AI Tutorials
July 14, 2026•12 min read
The Approval Boundary: Where Human Judgment Belongs
Human-in-the-loop design works when approval is reserved for consequential uncertainty and presented with enough evidence to make a real decision.
AI Tutorials
July 12, 2026•12 min read
Context Engineering for AI Systems: Architecture, Security, and Evals
How to build a small, trustworthy model context from policy, task state, evidence, memory, and tools—and test it under conflict, noise, and attack.
AI Tutorials
July 11, 2026•11 min read
How to Evaluate Computer-Use Agents Beyond Task Completion
A production evaluation framework for computer-use agents that measures final state, side effects, recovery, evidence, safety, and performance under real interface variation.
AI Tutorials
July 10, 2026•13 min read
AI Inference Latency Engineering: Metrics, Budgets, and Trade-offs
A practical guide to measuring and reducing AI latency across UI, context, retrieval, queues, model prefill, decoding, tools, and final side-effect verification.
AI Tutorials
June 21, 2026•19 min read
Codex Tutorial: Install Codex CLI, Configure It and Use It Day to Day
A practical Codex CLI guide: installing on macOS, Linux and Windows, signing in, AGENTS.md, the sandbox and approvals, MCP, scripting with codex exec, and connecting a self-hosted model.
AI Tutorials
December 26, 2025•14 min read
Claude Code Tutorial: Install, Configure and Use It Day to Day
A practical Claude Code guide: installing on macOS, Linux and Windows, CLAUDE.md, permission modes, everyday slash commands, MCP, hooks and unattended runs in the terminal.
AI Tutorials
December 20, 2025•11 min read
n8n Tutorial: The Complete Guide to AI Workflow Automation
A comprehensive tutorial on building powerful AI agents and automating enterprise processes with n8n, the flexible node-based automation platform.