Engineering Notes
Thoughts and Ideas on AI by Muthukrishnan
Home
All posts
AI Agents
Engineering Manager
About
Resume
Tags & Stats
08
Nov 2025
Codify Your Quality Bar and Make Standards Executable
The best engineering managers don't just set standards—they make them impossible to ignore by encoding them into the de...
08
Nov 2025
Meta-Learning and Few-Shot Adaptation in AI Agents
How agents learn to learn, adapting rapidly to new tasks with minimal examples through meta-learning and few-shot learning techniques.
07
Nov 2025
Agent Communication Protocols and Message-Passing Patterns for Coordination
Master the protocols and patterns that enable AI agents to communicate, coordinate, and collaborate effectively in multi-agent systems
07
Nov 2025
Create Clarity Artifacts to Turn Ambiguity into Executable Alignment
The skill that separates senior engineering managers from everyone else isn't technical brilliance or charisma—it's the...
06
Nov 2025
Build Organizational Memory, Not Institutional Knowledge
Most engineering managers worry about losing "institutional knowledge" when people leave. But that's the wrong frame. K...
06
Nov 2025
How Transformers Power Modern AI Agents with Attention and Reasoning
Understand how attention mechanisms enable AI agents to reason, maintain context, and make intelligent decisions in modern LLM-based systems.
05
Nov 2025
Agent Debugging and Observability for Seeing Inside the Black Box
Master the art of understanding, debugging, and monitoring AI agents through tracing, logging, and observability patterns
05
Nov 2025
Run Pre-Mortems, Not Post-Mortems
Most engineering teams are great at post-mortems—dissecting what went wrong after a failure. But elite teams do somethi...
04
Nov 2025
Design Ownership Boundaries, Not Org Charts
Most engineering managers scale teams by drawing org charts. The best ones design ownership boundaries first, then let ...
04
Nov 2025
Temporal Difference Learning and Q-Learning as the Engine of Agent Intelligence
**Temporal Difference (TD) Learning** and its most prominent variant, **Q-Learning**, are among the most influential al...
← Prev page
Next page →
