Category: Books

The Lean Startup by Eric Ries — Book Review I picked up this book expecting another Silicon Valley hype fest. What I got instead was a surprisingly rigorous methodology that changed how I think about building anything — not just tech companies. The Core Argument Eric Ries argues that most startups fail not because they

The Pragmatic Programmer, Re-Read in the Age of AI Pair Programming I first read The Pragmatic Programmer in 2019, the year Hunt and Thomas released the 20th anniversary edition. At the time I treated it the way most developers treat classic texts: a checklist of good habits to absorb, nod at, and then promptly forget

AI Engineering by Chip Huyen: The Best Technical Book on Building LLM Applications in 2025 If you’ve spent time building anything with large language models — a chatbot, an internal tool, a production pipeline — you’ve almost certainly run into the messy gap between “this works in the demo” and “this works reliably at scale.”