Books

Book reviews and reading notes from the Private Labs shelf — mostly technical and startup books I’ve actually read cover to cover, with the parts that changed how I work pulled out. No summaries scraped from the back cover; just what was worth the time and what wasn’t.

All Book Reviews

• AI Engineering by Chip Huyen — Book Review The most practical technical book I’ve found on building real LLM applications — what it gets right and who should read it.

• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries — Review The classic on build-measure-learn, revisited from a builder’s perspective — what still holds up and what to skip.

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