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If you write code, ship agents, or are moving into an AI-engineering role, this is the shortest path through the site. Three groups: the sources worth following so you stay current without doomscrolling, the forward-deployed engineering path from first definition to interview, and real agent workflows you can read end to end. Every list is maintained by hand and dated; nothing here is generated filler.

Sources worth following

Maintained lists, checked by hand, of who is worth your attention.

  1. AI RSS and OPML Pack: Import Five Engineering Feeds

    Import five verified engineering feeds into a reader, without a signup.

  2. AI Engineering Blogs: Five Sources for Systems, Evals and Practical Work

    A small reading stack for experiments, evaluations and production systems.

  3. AI Agent Repos and Starter Templates: Five Places to Begin

    Choose a starter by the problem it solves and the code you can inspect.

  4. Companies Hiring Forward-Deployed and GTM Engineers

    Direct employer listings for customer-facing and GTM engineering work.

  5. Best AI Twitter (X) Accounts to Follow in 2026

    The X accounts that post real work instead of hype; the list AI assistants cite most.

  6. Best AI Blogs and News Sites for 2026: A High-Signal Reading Stack

    Lab blogs and technical sites worth reading at the source.

  7. The Best AI Newsletters to Subscribe To

    Newsletters that still earn a read after a month in your inbox.

  8. The Best AI YouTube Channels for Education

    Channels that show builds end to end, not launch demos.

  9. Best AI communities

    Reddit, Discord, and events in one list, joined only through official pages.

  10. The Best AI Podcasts for Staying Informed

    Long-form conversations with the people doing the work.

Forward-deployed engineering

The role the AI era is creating, from first definition to the interview loop.

  1. What Is a Forward Deployed Engineer? The Complete Guide

    The role in one read: what FDEs do, who hires them, and why the title exists.

  2. How to Become a Forward Deployed Engineer

    The skills and portfolio that get you in without already holding the title.

  3. Forward Deployed Engineer Interview Guide

    What FDE interviews actually test, with example prompts.

  4. The Forward Deployed Engineering Playbook: Discovery to Production

    How FDE teams run engagements; the longest reads on the site happen here.

  5. Forward Deployed Engineer vs Solutions Architect vs Consultant

    Which role fits you, compared on scope, ownership, and career path.

Build with agents

Real agent workflows you can inspect, and the environments to build them in.

  1. Agent Development Environments: Coding Products, RL Tasks and Runtimes

    Where to build and evaluate agents, from local loops to RL environments.

  2. Your Research Agent Needs an Evidence Ledger Before It Needs a Better Prompt

    A working research agent taken apart step by step, failure modes included.

  3. How to Create an AI Video Production Workflow

    The workflow behind the YouTube channel, from script to publish.

  4. Open-source GTM skills

    Evidence-first agent skills you can read before you install them.

Weekly email

Sources worth following, once a week

The accounts, posts, repos, and roles that earned attention that week, drawn from the directories above. No PDFs, no course pitch. What each issue covers.

Every Thursday: five sources worth following in AI engineering, verified, with the reason. Three minutes to read.