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How to Pick Your Next AI Project (Before You Waste a Weekend)
I've built 10+ AI projects. Only 2 are still running. Here's what I'd do differently.
 • Claudia Ng
From Data Scientist to AI Builder: What Actually Works
How I learned to stop chasing tools and start solving problems
 • Claudia Ng
Fine-Tuning LLMs: When to Do It and When Not To
When LLM fine-tuning beats prompting and RAG and when to skip it
 • Claudia Ng
When Your Coding Agent Says Done (And Isn’t)
Session fixes for false progress, doom loops, and instruction drift in Claude Code and Cursor (after re-prompting made my stuck sessions worse).
 • Claudia Ng
How Coding Agents Actually Work Under the Hood (and Why They Go Wrong)
When the agent says it made a fix but your app still breaks: a clear read on Cursor, Claude Code, and what the session is really doing.
 • Claudia Ng
6 LLM Prompting Techniques for Data Scientists and Engineers in 2026
Six techniques matched to six failure modes, including inconsistent output formats, shallow reasoning, instruction drift, and more.
 • Claudia Ng
Should You Run an LLM on Your Phone?
What works today with Google AI Edge Gallery, what breaks first on real devices, and how to pick a model your phone can actually handle
 • Claudia Ng
Before You Upgrade Embeddings, Check Your Query Logs
What I learned at PyCon and from my own RAG failures
 • Claudia Ng
How to Learn AI by Building Real Projects (Not Tutorials)
A practical system: ship a live MVP, iterate from user feedback, and learn only what blocks you
 • Claudia Ng
From Indexing to Answering: A RAG Pipeline You Can Click Through
Interactive explainer on the query loop, ingestion vs retrieval, configs, deploy for my AI assistant I'm presenting at PyCon Austria.
 • Claudia Ng
Claude Code Keeps Forgetting Your Stack. These 5 Files Fix That.
Paste-ready CLAUDE.md template, settings.json deny list with reasoning, path-scoped UI rules, two custom /project: commands
 • Claudia Ng
8 Ways Vibe-Coded Apps Leak Data
Common AI-generated code failure modes (authorization, CSRF, prompt injection) and the paste-ready agent rules to guard against all of them.
 • Claudia Ng
16 Claude Code Commands That Actually Changed My Workflow
Sixteen Claude Code slash commands for the model context window, planning, diffs, and spend
 • Claudia Ng
The Full Topic Modeling Pipeline I Used (With Code and Parameter Decisions)
Full pipeline with copy-paste code, vibe-coding prompts, and parameter choices.
 • Claudia Ng
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