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The Technically Library

All Technically posts on software concepts since the dawn of time.

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140 Posts

A practical breakdown of the AI power situation

Why Three Mile Island is back in action after a 50 year hiatus.

ai

11/25/2025

What's RLHF?

How AI models learned to stop being weird and start being helpful.

ai

11/11/2025

How to build AI products that are actually good

All about AI evals, plus how Braintrust helps companies build better AI apps.

ai

10/23/2025

The vibe coder’s guide to real coding

Things you should know as a vibe coder that will make your app actually work / not die.

ai

10/22/2025

The Vercel update post: the AI cloud

How Vercel went from deploying apps to redefining how we build them.

ai

10/21/2025

What is Machine Learning?

How computers learn patterns from data: the foundation for everything from stock price prediction to ChatGPT.

ai

10/7/2025

The scaling law and the “bitter lesson” of AI

How bigger models, more data, and more compute keep beating clever tricks.

ai

9/23/2025

A deep dive into MCP and its associated servers

How FastMCP makes it easy to ship an MCP server.

ai

9/16/2025

Why do models hallucinate?

AI models inherently make stuff up. What can we do about it?

ai

9/9/2025

Databricks is apparently worth $100B. What do they even do?

What we should really be asking is “What does Databricks not do?”

analytics

8/26/2025

What's documentation?

How companies like Stripe win by writing better product docs, and where platforms like GitBook can help.

devops

8/19/2025

The beginner’s guide to AI model architectures

Unlike an onion, hopefully these neural network layers won't make you cry.

ai

8/12/2025

What is Generative AI?

A refresher on how models like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion work under the hood.

ai

7/22/2025

What's Javascript?

From humble origins to the most popular programming language in the world.

web-apps

7/15/2025

The post about GPUs

Why these chips pair perfectly with AI, and how NVIDIA became the most valuable company in the world.

ai

7/8/2025

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