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Jason Liu

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Notes on AI systems, open source, personal work, and the occasional life update from Jason Liu.

AI / MLSoftware / engineering practiceEngineering management / careers

’22’23’24’25’26
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130 from 1 Aug 2022 to 5 Jul 2026
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monthly (9 in the last year)
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2026 9

  1. If You Want Taste, You're Gonna Have to Eat
  2. 2026 - Jason Liu
  3. Two kinds of scheduled work in Codex
  4. Three Ways Codex Can Use a Computer
  5. Six levels of complexity in a Codex morning brief
  6. Codex-maxxing
  7. What Music Do You Listen To?
  8. Sunsetting 567 Labs and Open Sourcing the Course Content
  9. Things

2025 52

  1. Do Your Engineers Know How to Leverage AI?
  2. Coding Agents Speaker Series: Lessons from Industry Leaders
  3. RAG Master Series: Complete Guide to Retrieval-Augmented Generation
  4. Domain Experts: The Lever for Vertical AI
  5. Text Chunking Strategies for RAG Applications
  6. Why Grep Beat Embeddings in Our SWE-Bench Agent (Lessons from Augment)
  7. Why Cognition does not use multi-agent systems
  8. Stop Trusting MTEB Rankings (Kelly Hong, Chroma)
  9. How Extend Achieves 95%+ Document Automation (Lessons from Eli Badgio)
  10. The 12% RAG Performance Boost You're Missing (Ayush, LanceDB)
  11. Why Glean Builds Custom Embedding Models for Every Customer
  12. Lexical Search in RAG Applications
  13. Stopped Using RAG
  14. Why Your AI Is Failing in Production (Ben & Sidhant) - Jason Liu
  15. Data Organization and Query Routing for RAG Systems - Jason Liu
  16. The RAG Mistakes That Are Killing Your AI (Skylar Payne) - Jason Liu
  17. How OpenBB Ditched APIs and Put RAG in the Browser (Michael Struwig) - Jason Liu
  18. Why Most Document Parsing Sucks (Adit, Reducto) - Jason Liu
  19. Why Google Search Sucks for AI (Will Bryk, Exa) - Jason Liu
  20. Rethinking RAG Architecture for the Age of Agents - Jason Liu
  21. Encoder Stacking and Multi-Modal Retrieval (Daniel, Superlinked) - Jason Liu
  22. TurboPuffer: Object Storage-First Vector Database Architecture - Jason Liu
  23. How Zapier 4x'd Their AI Feedback Collection (Vitor) - Jason Liu
  24. 2025 - Jason Liu
  25. Context Engineering: Agent Frameworks and Form Factors - Jason Liu
  26. Context Engineering: Rapid Agent Prototyping - Jason Liu
  27. Compaction Experiments
  28. Slash Commands vs Subagents
  29. Context Engineering Series
  30. Beyond Chunks
  31. RAG Office Hours — Preview and Next Cohort - Jason Liu
  32. Frequently Asked Questions - Jason Liu
  33. RAG for Coding Agents Lightning Series - Jason Liu
  34. Revenue Sharing
  35. RAG Anti-Patterns with Skylar Payne - Jason Liu
  36. How to invest in AI w/ MCPS and Data Analytics - Jason Liu
  37. Systematically Improving RAG with Raindrop and Oleve - Jason Liu
  38. Pricing Agents
  39. Only 6 Evals
  40. Free Lightning Lessons to Advance Your RAG Implementations - Jason Liu
  41. Creating Content That Converts: My Guide for AI Consultants - Jason Liu
  42. Version Control for the Vibe Coder (Part 1) - Jason Liu
  43. Version Control for the Vibe Coder (Part 2) - Jason Liu
  44. Fine-Tuning Embedding Models for Enterprise RAG: Lessons from Glean - Jason Liu
  45. Authority in RAG Systems: The Missing Piece in Your Retrieval Strategy - Jason Liu
  46. Hard Truths
  47. Two-Stage Triage System - Jason Liu
  48. Systematically Improving RAG Applications - Jason Liu
  49. 10 Foot Guns in Fine-Tuning and Few-Shots - Jason Liu
  50. Making Money is Negative Margin - Jason Liu
  51. I Used AI Agents to Add 50+ Cross-Links to My Blog (And You Can Too) - Jason Liu
  52. Prompt Template Resource System Specification - Jason Liu

2024 61

  1. No One Has Potential But Yourself - Jason Liu
  2. 2024 - Jason Liu
  3. Legal Office Hours for AI Consultants - Jason Liu
  4. Systematically Improving RAG Applications Speaker Series - Jason Liu
  5. Decomposing RAG Systems to Identify Bottlenecks - Jason Liu
  6. Those Who Can Do, Must Teach: Why Teaching Makes You Better - Jason Liu
  7. What is Retrieval Augmented Generation? - Jason Liu
  8. How to Improve RAG Applications; 6 Proven Strategies - Jason Liu
  9. How to Get Started in AI Consulting: - Jason Liu
  10. Consulting writing - Jason Liu
  11. Who am I? - Jason Liu
  12. How to Lead AI Engineering Teams - Jason Liu
  13. FAQ on Improving RAG Applications - Jason Liu
  14. Running Effective AI Standups - Jason Liu
  15. Effective Communication in AI Engineering: Moving Beyond Vague Updates - Jason Liu
  16. Dear Future AI Consultant - Jason Liu
  17. Content Creation Mastery: From Tweets to Long-Form - Jason Liu
  18. Why Freelancers Will Win the AI Gold Rush - Jason Liu
  19. Chasing Chase: Why I'll Never Trust Chase Bank Again, A Yuppie Nightmare - Jason Liu
  20. A surprising reason to not list your consulting prices - Jason Liu
  21. Affective Consulting: Referrals - Jason Liu
  22. Content Creation Mastery: 9 Strategies to 10x Your Impact - Jason Liu
  23. Implementing Naturalistic Dialogue in AI Companions - Jason Liu
  24. Everything I Learned from AI Consulting - Jason Liu
  25. Best Tools for Indie Consultants - Jason Liu
  26. Optimizing Tool Retrieval in RAG Systems: A Balanced Approach - Jason Liu
  27. The RAG Playbook - Jason Liu
  28. How I want you to write - Jason Liu
  29. Living My Best Life: A $20 Million Daydream - Jason Liu
  30. On Getting Recognized: The Unexpected Price of Online Success - Jason Liu
  31. Art of Looking at RAG Data - Jason Liu
  32. My Self-Reflection on Success and Growth - Jason Liu
  33. Predictions for the Future of RAG - Jason Liu
  34. 10 Ways to Be Data Illiterate (and How to Avoid Them) - Jason Liu
  35. Advice to Young People
  36. Thoughts on Marketing, Positioning, and Scaling my Consulting - Jason Liu
  37. Losing My Hands Pt. 2: The Two Jasons - Jason Liu
  38. Losing my Hands, Advice and Tips for RSI - Jason Liu
  39. Systematically Improving RAG
  40. What is prompt optimization? - Jason Liu
  41. Low-Hanging Fruit
  42. Losing My Hands
  43. Picking Metrics and Setting Goals - Jason Liu
  44. Hiring MLEs
  45. Data Flywheel Go Brrr: Using Your Users to Build Better Products - Jason Liu
  46. Unraveling the History of Technological Skepticism - Jason Liu
  47. Levels of Complexity: RAG Applications - Jason Liu
  48. Format your own prompts - Jason Liu
  49. AI MVPs
  50. Free course on Weights and Biases - Jason Liu
  51. How to ask for Referrals (Among other things) - Jason Liu
  52. Stop using LGTM@Few as a metric (Better RAG) - Jason Liu
  53. My year at 1100ng/dL - Jason Liu
  54. Indie Consulting - Jason Liu
  55. A Critique on Couches - Jason Liu
  56. Tips for probabilistic software - Jason Liu
  57. Public Baths - Jason Liu
  58. Anatomy of a Tweet - Jason Liu
  59. I used to hate rich people. - Jason Liu
  60. Learning to Learn
  61. How to build a terrible RAG system - Jason Liu

2023 6

  1. AI Engineer Keynote: Pydantic is all you need - Jason Liu
  2. 2023 - Jason Liu
  3. RAG is more than just embedding search - Jason Liu
  4. Kojima's Philosophy in LLMs: From Sticks to Ropes - Jason Liu
  5. LLM Observability
  6. Freediving under ice - Jason Liu

2022 2

  1. Recommendations with Flight at Stitch Fix - Jason Liu
  2. 2022 - Jason Liu