Engineering Notes

Engineering Notes

Thoughts and Ideas on AI by Muthukrishnan
20 Feb 2026

Causal Reasoning and Intervention Planning in AI Agents

How AI agents can move beyond correlation to understand cause and effect, enabling more robust planning, better tool use, and reliable interventions in the real world
19 Feb 2026

Agent Evaluation and Benchmarking for Measuring What Matters

Learn how to systematically evaluate AI agent performance using benchmarks, metrics, and evaluation frameworks that go beyond simple accuracy
18 Feb 2026

Role Specialization and Crew Based Multi Agent Architectures

How assigning specialized roles to AI agents and orchestrating them as a crew produces better outcomes than monolithic single-agent systems
17 Feb 2026

Inverse Reinforcement Learning Inferring Goals From Behavior

Learn how inverse reinforcement learning lets AI agents discover hidden reward functions by observing expert behavior, and why it matters for agent alignment and autonomous systems
17 Feb 2026

What If GitHub Was Built for AI Agents

Reimagining source code management from the ground up for AI agents, with intent based commits, simulation before merge, agent reputation, and automatic rollback contracts
16 Feb 2026

Error Recovery and Graceful Degradation in AI Agents

Learn how to build resilient AI agents that recover from failures, degrade gracefully, and maintain reliability in production environments
16 Feb 2026

Imitation Learning Teaching Agents by Watching Experts

Learn how AI agents can acquire complex behaviors by observing and mimicking expert demonstrations, from classical behavioral cloning to modern LLM agent distillation
15 Feb 2026

Knowledge Distillation Teaching Smaller Agents From Larger Ones

Learn how knowledge distillation enables large, expensive AI agents to teach smaller, faster ones — reducing cost and latency while preserving capability
02 Feb 2026

Claude Code CLI Best Practices Checklist

A comprehensive guide to tips, tricks, and best practices for maximizing productivity with Claude Code. --- ## Table ...
02 Feb 2026

The Complete Guide to Git Worktrees with Claude Code

## Table of Contents 1. [Introduction](#1-introduction) 2. [Understanding Git Worktrees](#2-understanding-git-worktree...