The Curious Engineer

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Rodney S. Lafuente-Mercado

rlafuente.com/writing

Posts on reinforcement learning, agents, evaluation, and building things.

AI / MLSoftware / engineering practiceCrypto / fintech

’23’24’25’26
Posts
18 from 10 Mar 2023 to 11 Oct 2026
Posting
monthly (9 in the last year)
Kind
personal blog

2026 9

  1. 2026-10-11 The Environment Is the Eval (Evaluating LLM Agents, part 5)
  2. 2026-10-11 Verifiers First, Rubrics Second (Evaluating LLM Agents, part 4)
  3. 2026-10-11 What Changes When the Model Acts (Evaluating LLM Agents, part 3)
  4. 2026-10-11 Measure a Workflow, Not a System (Evaluating LLM Agents, part 2)
  5. 2026-10-11 Two Hills: Weights and Harnesses (Evaluating LLM Agents, part 1)
  6. 2026-10-11 Evaluating LLM Agents (series page)
  7. 2026-09-26 Teaching a Decision Model to Cook and Cooperate
  8. 2026-03-07 My Dev Box Setup Script
  9. 2026-02-01 On God and Machine Learning

2025 4

  1. 2025-04-18 Dockerizing a Simple Flask App
  2. 2025-03-05 I Lost $150 in 20 Minutes Market-Making on Kalshi
  3. 2025-02-16 Making Markets on Kalshi
  4. 2025-02-14 Launching Describe

2024 2

  1. 2024-09-01 Syndeo: Secure, Portable Ray Clusters
  2. 2024-06-12 A GPU-Accelerated Binary Vector Index

2023 3

  1. 2023-08-31 Double Barrelled Names
  2. 2023-03-29 You Can't Know a Programming Language
  3. 2023-03-10 Looking for a Job