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Angelina Yang
Interviews the technical founders and domain experts building AI, then distills what they actually did into the wedge, the build, and the sell.
AI/ML researcher, published author on RAG, AI patent holder, Anthropic Developer Contest winner. Her questions are basic on purpose. The ones a first-time builder would want to ask but might feel too embarrassed to. That's the point.
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Why AI Agents Delete Production Databases (And How to Stop It)
Ali Parandeh, author of Building Generative AI Services with FastAPI (O'Reilly), breaks down the OWASP LLM vulnerability that turns helpful agents into destructive ones — and the guardrails you need before you ship.
Why Vertical AI Beats Horizontal Copilots — The Moat Most Founders Miss
Ali Parandeh, author of Building Generative AI Services with FastAPI (O'Reilly), explains why the next wave of AI startups will be vertical-specific — and why horizontal copilots are saturated.
The RCT Framework: How to Prompt an LLM Like a Junior Intern
Ali Parandeh, author of Building Generative AI Services with FastAPI (O'Reilly), walks through the Role-Context-Task framework — the simplest reliable way to get production-grade output from an LLM.
The Vertical AI Wedge Most Founders Are Missing
Most founders building vertical AI are racing for speed. Rec Technologies CEO Birju Kadakia argues the real wedge is something else entirely — and three pillars decide which vertical SaaS survives AI disruption.
Why Startups Run £200K Backends for Free on Go (And When to Pick FastAPI)
Ali Parandeh, author of Building Generative AI Services with FastAPI (O'Reilly), explains why some AI startups are running their entire production stack on free cloud tiers — and the tradeoffs between Go and Python for AI services.
How to Test LLM Applications: The Behavioral Testing Framework
Ali Parandeh, author of Building Generative AI Services with FastAPI (O'Reilly), explains the three behavioral tests every production LLM service needs — Minimum Functional, Invariance, and Directional Expectation.