This one is on the to-read pile, and near the top of it. O’Reilly’s design-pattern books have a way of turning a messy new field into something you can reason about, and generative AI badly needs that right now.

I spend my days building AI products, and most of the hard parts aren’t the model. They’re everything around it: retrieval, evaluation, guardrails, how agents coordinate, what to do when the thing is confident and wrong. A shared vocabulary of patterns for that would save a lot of reinventing the wheel.

I’m keeping it here as a marker of where my learning is heading next. I’ll come back and rewrite this once I’ve actually read it and put a few of the patterns to work.