Insights & Updates

AI Shipping Labs Sprint 2 Starts Today

AI Shipping Labs Sprint 2 starts today. Join the six-week sprint to work from your personal plan, or combine it with LLM Zoomcamp in a closed cohort with weekly office hours for AI Shipping Labs members.

Alexey Grigorev July 01, 2026 5 min read

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CRISP-DM for AI Engineering: Why a 1996 Framework Still Describes Modern AI Development

See how CRISP-DM still guides AI engineers in 2026, translating each phase into practical workflows for LLM apps, RAG pipelines, and production AI systems.

Alexey Grigorev, Valeriia Kuka March 11, 2026 14 min read

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How Claude Code Accidentally Wiped Our AWS RDS Database (24-Hour Recovery)

An incident story: how I accidentally wiped our AWS RDS production database and deleted snapshots by letting Claude Code touch production infrastructure.

Alexey Grigorev March 06, 2026 13 min read

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What Is an AI Engineer? 2026 Role, Skills and Responsibilities Based on 1,000+ Job Descriptions

Learn what an AI engineer is in 2026: responsibilities, skills, tools, and real-world use cases based on analysis of 1,000+ AI engineer job descriptions.

Alexey Grigorev, Valeriia Kuka March 04, 2026 19 min read

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How to Join AI Engineering Buildcamp

How to join AI Engineering Buildcamp: individual enrollment, team discounts, company L&D budgets, student discounts, PPP pricing, and scholarships.

Alexey Grigorev March 01, 2026 4 min read

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ChatGPT Data Viewer: Search and Visualize Your Entire ChatGPT History Locally

Learn how I built the ChatGPT Data Viewer, a local app that searches and visualizes your ChatGPT export with statistics and a GitHub-style activity view.

Alexey Grigorev February 27, 2026 8 min read

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What Is an AI Engineer? Experience-Based Definition After 15+ Years in Software and ML

A practical definition of the AI engineer role: what they do, how they differ from ML engineers and data scientists, and what it takes to ship AI-powered features from prototype to production.

Alexey Grigorev, Valeriia Kuka February 23, 2026 15 min read

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SQLiteSearch: Lightweight Text and Vector Search Library in Python

Learn how I built SQLiteSearch, a lightweight, single-file Python library for fast text and vector search with SQLite (no Docker).

Alexey Grigorev February 20, 2026 7 min read

ai search python +1

Inside ChatGPT’s /home/oai/ Folder: Not a Data Leak, but OpenAI’s Hidden Skills System

I unpacked the mysterious /home/oai/ directory that ChatGPT can zip on command and found not leaked OpenAI infrastructure, but a sandbox of document, slide, and spreadsheet “skills” that reveals how the new cross-vendor agent skills standard works in practice.

Alexey Grigorev February 10, 2026 4 min read

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Building and Maintaining a Slack Moderation Bot for an 88k-Member Community

A story about how I built and maintained a Slack moderation bot for an 88k-member community using AI and AWS Lambda.

Alexey Grigorev February 06, 2026 4 min read

ai slack aws +2

Telegram Writing Assistant: Claude Code Turns Voice Notes Into Markdown

Learn how I built a Telegram-based writing assistant that uses Claude Code to transcribe voice notes and convert brain dumps into structured Markdown, saved and versioned in a GitHub repo.

Alexey Grigorev January 30, 2026 7 min read

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Experiments with Claude Code: Slash Commands and Persistent Coding Loops

I built funny projects with custom Claude Code slash commands (/kid and /parent), then explored stop hooks, the Ralph Wiggum plugin, and a Python-based continue loop to keep Claude coding continuously.

Alexey Grigorev January 09, 2026 4 min read

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Shipping Features From My Phone

How I merged a DataTalks.Club Wrapped feature by opening a PR from a tram stop, iterating with Copilot from my smartphone, and deploying via CI/CD.

Alexey Grigorev December 17, 2025 5 min read

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How I Built a Fully Automated Image-to-Podcast Pipeline for Kids Horror Stories

I built a fully automated system that takes photos of everyday objects and turns them into illustrated horror stories, complete with audio narration and Spotify podcast episodes. Here's how I did it.

Alexey Grigorev December 12, 2025 11 min read

ai-tools podcast automation +3

How I Rebuilt My Personal Website in 10 Minutes With AI

I hadn't updated my personal website since 2012. Using AI tools like Lovable and GitHub Copilot, I rebuilt it from scratch in under 10 minutes. Here's exactly how I did it and what I learned.

Alexey Grigorev December 05, 2025 5 min read

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