AI Fluency Leveling

Transition from prompt "engineering" to AI system architecture with this 7-step AI fluency framework. Designed for software engineers and SREs, this…

Jan 30 • Alex Ewerlöf

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December 2025

Foundation vs. Instruct vs. Thinking Models

A Senior Engineer’s Mental Model for AI

Dec 24, 2025 • Alex Ewerlöf

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Emergent properties

What are nominal, weak and strong emergent properties and how to identify and mitigate their negative impact in system design?

Dec 5, 2025 • Alex Ewerlöf

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November 2025

AI Systems Engineering Patterns

30 techniques from conventional system engineering to supercharge AI Engineering

Nov 30, 2025 • Alex Ewerlöf

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3 levels of writing

A leveling model to use writing for thinking, communication, and innovation

Nov 21, 2025 • Alex Ewerlöf

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Fitting parts

What does it mean? How is it abused? And how to work around the pitfalls?

Nov 12, 2025 • Alex Ewerlöf

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October 2025

AI topology

Cloud AI, Edge AI, Local AI, and Hybrid AI

Oct 24, 2025 • Alex Ewerlöf

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Introducing: Local Browser AI

Using the new Prompt API for local chat in the browser

Oct 13, 2025 • Alex Ewerlöf

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August 2025

SLI Evolution Stages

How to dodge vanity metrics and measure the right service level indicator and why?

Aug 27, 2025 • Alex Ewerlöf

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SLI Compass: Fidelity and Granularity

A Mental Model to Assess Existing SLIs and Evaluate New Ones. We discuss 2 dimension: fidelity shows how closely your SLI is measuring the user…

Aug 8, 2025 • Alex Ewerlöf

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Service Level Topology

Visualizing the service consumption and measurement topology while avoiding the most common SLI/SLO pitfalls

Aug 3, 2025 • Alex Ewerlöf

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June 2025

SLA vs SLO

Demystifying the most common misconception in Service Level jargon

Jun 21, 2025 • Alex Ewerlöf

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