Reflections on artificial intelligence, low-level model mechanics, high-leverage agent architectures, and navigating the modern software engineering paradigm shift.
A personal journey through confusion, abstraction layers, and trying to figure out where a software engineer actually belongs in the age of LLMs.
To be completely honest, I spent months feeling skeptical about the AI hype. Aren't we all just calling external APIs and gluing JSON strings together? Here is how peeling back the abstraction layers changed my perspective.
July 30, 2026 • By Thong Truong
To be completely honest, I spent months feeling skeptical about the AI hype. Aren't we all just calling external APIs and gluing JSON strings together? Here is how peeling back the abstraction layers changed my perspective.
August 12, 2026 • By Thong Truong
When I first enrolled in AIO 2026, my goal was purely technical: master the math and train models from scratch. But diving into AI made me see the software industry through a completely new lens—understanding why selling developer hours is being commoditized and where true value is moving.