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AI engineering — source index

Master bibliography for the ai-engineering/ knowledge base. Every URL referenced across all topic articles, organized by category.

Count: 54 sources. Last curated: 2026-03-22.

Standards: Primary research (arXiv, peer-reviewed venues), official vendor docs, established practitioners (Weng, Huyen, Karpathy, Willison, Alammar), recognized standards bodies (NIST, OWASP). Blog posts included only when they offer unique insight; marked as such.

Research papers

# Authors / Title Venue Year Topic URL
1 Vaswani et al., Attention Is All You Need NeurIPS 2017 LLM foundations arXiv:1706.03762
2 Lewis et al., Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks NeurIPS 2020 Context engineering arXiv:2005.11401
3 Kaplan et al., Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models — 2020 LLM foundations arXiv:2001.08361
4 Hu et al., LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models ICLR 2022 Full-stack LLM arXiv:2106.09685
5 Hoffmann et al., Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models (Chinchilla) NeurIPS 2022 LLM foundations arXiv:2203.15556
6 Ouyang et al., Training Language Models to Follow Instructions with Human Feedback NeurIPS 2022 Full-stack LLM arXiv:2203.02155
7 Yao et al., ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models ICLR 2023 Agentic AI arXiv:2210.03629
8 Schick et al., Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools NeurIPS 2023 Agentic AI arXiv:2302.04761
9 Liu et al., Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts TACL 2023 Context engineering arXiv:2307.03172
10 OpenAI, GPT-4 Technical Report — 2023 LLM foundations arXiv:2303.08774
11 Zhao et al., A Survey of Large Language Models — 2023 (updated 2025) LLM foundations arXiv:2303.18223
12 Rafailov et al., Direct Preference Optimization NeurIPS 2023 Full-stack LLM arXiv:2305.18290
13 Dettmers et al., QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized Language Models NeurIPS 2023 Full-stack LLM arXiv:2305.14314
14 A Survey on the Memory Mechanism of LLM-based Agents — 2024 Agentic AI arXiv:2404.13501
15 Maximum Effective Context Window OAJAIML 2024 Context engineering oajaiml.com
16 Meta, The Llama 3 Herd of Models — 2024 LLM foundations arXiv:2407.21783
17 Beyond ReAct: Planner-Centric Framework for Complex Tool-Augmented LLM Reasoning — 2025 Agentic AI arXiv:2511.10037
18 PROBE: Measuring Proactive Problem Solving in LLM Agents — 2025 Agentic AI openreview.net
19 (Mis)Fitting: A Survey of Scaling Laws — 2025 LLM foundations arXiv:2502.18969
20 Post-Training Scaling survey ACL 2025 Full-stack LLM aclanthology.org
21 DeepSeek, DeepSeek-R1 Technical Report — 2025 LLM foundations arXiv:2501.12948
22 The Landscape of Agentic RL for LLMs: A Survey TMLR 2026 Agentic AI arXiv:2509.02547
23 Context Engineering vs Prompt Engineering (9,649 experiments) — 2026 Context engineering keepmyprompts.com

Official vendor documentation

# Provider / Product Category URL
24 Anthropic — Claude API docs AI services docs.anthropic.com
25 Anthropic — Context windows Context engineering docs.anthropic.com/…/context-windows
26 Anthropic — Compaction Context engineering docs.anthropic.com/…/compaction
27 Anthropic — Prompt engineering / Claude best practices Context engineering docs.anthropic.com/…/claude-4-best-practices
28 Anthropic — Tool use Agentic AI docs.anthropic.com/…/tool-use
29 OpenAI — Platform docs AI services platform.openai.com/docs
30 OpenAI — Conversation state Context engineering platform.openai.com/…/conversation-state
31 Google AI / Gemini docs AI services ai.google.dev/docs
32 AWS Bedrock docs AI services docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock
33 Azure OpenAI Service docs AI services learn.microsoft.com/…/openai
34 Hugging Face Hub and docs AI services / Full-stack huggingface.co/docs
35 Cursor — Rules (official) Context engineering cursor.com/docs/context/rules
36 vLLM docs Full-stack LLM docs.vllm.ai

Frameworks and tools

# Framework Category URL
37 LangChain / LangGraph Agentic AI python.langchain.com/docs/introduction
38 Microsoft AutoGen Agentic AI microsoft.github.io/autogen
39 CrewAI Agentic AI docs.crewai.com
40 LMSYS Chatbot Arena Full-stack LLM chat.lmsys.org

Established practitioners (blogs, talks, courses)

# Author Resource Category URL
41 Lilian Weng LLM Powered Autonomous Agents (Lil'Log) Agentic AI lilianweng.github.io/…/agent
42 Lilian Weng The Transformer Family (Lil'Log) LLM foundations lilianweng.github.io/…/transformer-family
43 Chip Huyen Building LLM Applications for Production Full-stack LLM huyenchip.com/…/llm-engineering
44 Chip Huyen AI Engineering (O'Reilly, 2025) Full-stack LLM oreilly.com/…/ai-engineering
45 Andrej Karpathy Let's build GPT from scratch (YouTube) LLM foundations youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY
46 Andrej Karpathy nanoGPT (GitHub) LLM foundations github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT
47 Andrej Karpathy / Tobi Lutke Context engineering framing (2025) Context engineering the-decoder.com/…
48 Jay Alammar The Illustrated Transformer LLM foundations jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer
49 Simon Willison Long context / context engineering (tag) Context engineering simonwillison.net/tags/long-context
50 Shopify Engineering Building production-ready agentic systems Context engineering shopify.engineering/…
51 Cognition AI Devin (autonomous software engineer) Agentic AI cognition.ai/blog/introducing-devin

Standards and governance

# Body Resource Category URL
52 OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications AI services / Security owasp.org/…/top-10-for-llm
53 NIST AI Risk Management Framework AI services / Governance nist.gov/…/ai-risk-management-framework
54 EU AI Act AI services / Governance artificialintelligenceact.eu

Source distribution

Category Count
Research papers 23
Vendor documentation 13
Frameworks and tools 4
Practitioner content 11
Standards and governance 3
Total 54

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