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Updated Sep 15, 2026Reading

Reading

Books, articles, and papers that are shaping my thinking.

  • AI Systems
  • Habits

Currently Reading

System Design for the LLM Era, Sampriti Mitra

Working through patterns for production-grade LLM systems: evals, routing, and cost/latency trade-offs. Feeds directly into the gateway work.

Atomic Habits, James Clear

Systems over goals: environment design and small compounding habits, applied to training and deep work.

The Anti-Library (Up Next)

  1. The Pragmatic Programmer by David Thomas & Andrew Hunt
  2. Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
  3. Staff Engineer by Will Larson

Recently Finished

  • Principles of Building AI Agents by Sam Bhagwat
  • Patterns for Building AI Agents by Sam Bhagwat & Michelle Gienow