--- id: "/learning-reference/practice-guides-best-worst/" title: "practice guides (best/worst): 22 curated resources" url: "https://skillissue.dev/learning-reference/practice-guides-best-worst/" --- # practice guides (best/worst): 22 curated resources practice guides (best/worst) [Beginner](/learning-reference/beginner/index.md) [Intermediate](/learning-reference/intermediate/index.md) [Advanced](/learning-reference/advanced/index.md) [Expert](/learning-reference/expert/index.md) 22 resources · page 1 of 1 - ### [12-Factor Agents (humanlayer)](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/12-factor-agents-humanlayer/index.md) by [HumanLayer](https://humanlayer.dev) 12-Factor Agents GitHub repo (HumanLayer): principles for building reliable LLM-powered software. entity person US en - ### [a16z AI](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/a16z-ai/index.md) by [Andreessen Horowitz](https://a16z.com/) Andreessen Horowitz AI page collecting the firm's essays, market maps and podcasts on AI infrastructure and applications. entity company US en - ### [Ahead of AI](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/ahead-of-ai/index.md) by [Sebastian Raschka](https://sebastianraschka.com/) Sebastian Raschka's Ahead of AI newsletter on LLM research, architectures and training. entity person US en - ### [Answer.AI](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/answer-ai/index.md) by [Answer.AI](https://answer.ai/) Answer.AI: R&D lab building practical AI products and open-source tools from research. entity person US en - ### [宝玉 baoyu.io](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/baoyu-io/index.md) by [宝玉 (baoyu.io)](https://baoyu.io/) Baoyu's Chinese blog on LLMs, prompt engineering and software engineering. entity person CN en - ### [Chip Huyen blog](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/chip-huyen-blog/index.md) by [Chip Huyen](https://huyenchip.com/) Chip Huyen's blog: posts on AI engineering, agents and ML system design. entity person US en - ### [Сиолошная (Telegram web preview)](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/entry/index.md) by [Сиолошная (Telegram web preview)](https://t.me/seeallochnaya) Web view of the Сиолошная Telegram channel by Igor Kotenkov: Russian-language news and analysis on NLP and AI. entity community RU ru - ### [Every: Chain of Thought](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/every-chain-of-thought/index.md) by [Every](https://every.to/) Every's Chain of Thought column on AI tools and their use. entity person US en - ### [Lenny's Newsletter (AI product)](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/lenny-s-newsletter-ai-product/index.md) by [Lenny Rachitsky](https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/) Lenny's Newsletter: product, growth and career writing for product managers and founders, including AI product topics. entity company US en - ### [levelsio blog](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/levelsio-blog-indie-business/index.md) by [Pieter Levels (@levelsio)](https://levels.io/) Pieter Levels' blog on bootstrapping solo internet businesses, including AI products. entity company US en - ### [Mitchell Hashimoto writing](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/mitchell-hashimoto-writing/index.md) by [Mitchell Hashimoto](https://mitchellh.com/) Mitchell Hashimoto's writing index, including posts on AI-assisted programming practice. entity person US en - ### [Peter Steinberger blog](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/peter-steinberger-blog/index.md) by [Peter Steinberger](https://steipete.me/) Peter Steinberger's blog on building AI-powered developer tools, creator of OpenClaw. entity person US en - ### [Sebastian Raschka](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/sebastian-raschka/index.md) by [Sebastian Raschka](https://sebastianraschka.com/) Sebastian Raschka's blog archive: posts on LLMs, AI research and PyTorch. entity person US en - ### [AI in 2025: Building Blocks Firmly in Place (Sequoia Capital)](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/sequoia-ai-essays/index.md) by [Sequoia Capital](https://www.sequoiacap.com/) Sequoia Capital essay on the state of AI in 2025, covering foundation models, applications and market structure. entity company US en - ### [AIAAIC Repository](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/aiaaic-repository/index.md) by [AIAAIC](https://www.aiaaic.org/) AIAAIC Repository: independent register of AI incidents and controversies with case entries. Beginner learning_resource guide US en - ### [CS自学指南 csdiy.wiki](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/cs-csdiy-wiki/index.md) by [csdiy.wiki community (PKUFlyingPig)](https://csdiy.wiki/) CS自学指南 (csdiy.wiki): Chinese self-study map of computer science courses, including ML systems and LLM courses. Beginner–Expert learning_resource guide China zh|en - ### [Illustrated Transformer (Alammar)](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/illustrated-transformer-alammar/index.md) by [Jay Alammar](https://jalammar.github.io) Jay Alammar's Illustrated Transformer: visual explanation of attention and the transformer architecture. Beginner learning_resource guide US en - ### [LLM Visualization (bbycroft)](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/llm-visualization-bbycroft/index.md) by [Brendan Bycroft](https://bbycroft.net/) LLM Visualization by Brendan Bycroft: interactive 3D walkthrough of GPT-style inference step by step. Beginner learning_resource guide NZ en - ### [Transformer Explainer (Georgia Tech)](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/transformer-explainer-georgia-tech/index.md) by [Polo Club of Data Science, Georgia Tech](https://poloclub.github.io) Georgia Tech Transformer Explainer: interactive in-browser visualisation of how a GPT-2 transformer works. Beginner learning_resource guide US en - ### [Habr ML hub](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/habr-ml-hub/index.md) by [Habr](https://habr.com/) Habr machine learning hub: Russian-language articles on ML from practitioners and companies. Intermediate learning_resource guide Russia ru - ### [Why Do Multi-Agent LLM Systems Fail?](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/why-do-multi-agent-llm-systems-fail/index.md) by [Mert Cemri et al. (UC Berkeley)](https://www.berkeley.edu/) arXiv paper (2025) analysing why multi-agent LLM systems fail, with a taxonomy of 14 failure modes. Intermediate–Advanced learning_resource paper US en - ### [Convex Optimization](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/convex-optimization/index.md) by [Stephen Boyd and Lieven Vandenberghe (Stanford University)](https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/) Boyd and Vandenberghe's Convex Optimization book site with free PDF, slides and exercises. Advanced learning_resource guide US en [Plain-text Markdown copy](/learning-reference/practice-guides-best-worst/index.md)