The AI Merge | Alex Razvant | Substack

Back in Build Mode

Updates on my new L8 SWE/AI role at Axon, the AI Slide Deck, and the production-focused AI Systems course + an open live session tomorrow.

May 28 • Alex Razvant

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One ugly truth on becoming an AI/ML Engineer!

Feb 11, 2025 • Alex Razvant

Understanding LLM Inference

Feb 20, 2025 • Alex Razvant

The AI/ML Engineer's starter guide to GPU Programming

Jan 30, 2025 • Alex Razvant

What I've learned after 8 years of Python

May 10, 2025 • Alex Razvant

The AI Merge

The AI Merge

A technical publication for engineers designing, building, and deploying AI systems beyond demos.

Here's what you've missed

Last article of 2025 - A Directional Update

Reflecting on 2025, and how this newsletter is changing going into 2026

Dec 27, 2025 • Alex Razvant

A few updates: the DGX Spark giveaway, new GPU inference slides, and my Vision AI Course

What I've been working on behind the scenes, and what I'm preparing next.

Apr 11 • Alex Razvant

Building a Local AI Task Manager with PydanticAI and Ollama

A practical introduction to agent-based architectures using typed models, tools, and runtime context in Pydantic AI.

Mar 22 • Alex Razvant

Win an NVIDIA DGX Spark by joining me for Virtual NVIDIA GTC 2026

How to enter the giveaway - and what to expect if you’re an AI engineer building on DGX Spark.

Mar 14 • Alex Razvant

Free Courses

Kubrick: An Multimodal AI Agent for Video Processing

Building a complete AI System for Video Processing, with Tool Calling Agents, MCP, LLMOps and production-ready software engineering practices in mind.

Other Platforms

GitHub projects and practical code examples.

YouTube videos, walkthroughs, and Shorts.

Daily posts to upskill as an AI Engineer

The AI Merge

Notes on building, shipping, and operating real AI systems.

Practical AI Engineering

The Open-Source Kubrick Course

Short article, complete overview and final steps of the course.

Aug 2, 2025 • Alex Razvant

Building a FullStack (BE/FE) Agent ↔ UI Application

Building an Agent API using FastAPI, and a React UI Frontend. Opik Agent Observability across the workflow.

Jul 26, 2025 • Alex Razvant

Building Tool Use (MCP) Agents from Scratch

No frameworks, no abstractions - build an Agent and connect it to MCP, implementing each step on your own.

Jul 19, 2025 • Alex Razvant

Building MCP Servers for Video Search Engines

How MCP can solve the integration problem for multimodal search in Video RAG.

Jul 12, 2025

Cracking the Code to Multimodal AI Pipelines

Building efficient Multimodal Systems, unpacking Video, VLMs and Speech to Text (STT)

Jul 5, 2025 • Alex Razvant

Strong AI Foundations

Local LLM Inference : llama.cpp, GGUF, Quantizations and GGML Explained

Learn how the llama.cpp runtime, GGML backend concepts, and GGUF model format fit together for fast local inference across devices.

Mar 3 • Alex Razvant

Upcoming Livestream: GPUs for AI (Shaped by You)

You can choose the topics for a Live Session on GPUs in AI

Jan 27 • Alex Razvant

The Smartest AI Engineers Will Bet on This in 2026

A no-BS breakdown of where to invest your time, backed by real industry insights.

Jan 13 • Alex Razvant

An AI Engineer's Guide To Choosing GPUs

A deep dive on technical Hardware and Software details of NVIDIA GPUs for AI Workloads.

Dec 7, 2025 • Alex Razvant

My Best Recent Guides for AI Engineers

A curated list of the most actionable guides I’ve published in the past months.

Nov 29, 2025 • Alex Razvant

Resilient AI Systems

The Complete Guide to Ollama: Local LLM Inference Made Simple

A deep dive into Ollama’s architecture, going through model management, OpenAI API schema and local inference integrations with CLI, Docker and Python.

Oct 25, 2025

A practical roadmap on LLM Systems

11 hands-on free long videos on understanding advanced LLM Systems.

Apr 26, 2025 • Alex Razvant

7 Frameworks and Toolkits you must know for AI and Deep Learning

Concise set of diagrams and summaries of popular NVIDIA libraries used by AI/ML Engineers across all ML, DL, and GenAI.

Apr 10, 2025 • Alex Razvant

The AI Merge

Notes on building, shipping, and operating real AI systems.

Community Updates

Back in Build Mode

Updates on my new L8 SWE/AI role at Axon, the AI Slide Deck, and the production-focused AI Systems course + an open live session tomorrow.

May 28 • Alex Razvant

A few updates: the DGX Spark giveaway, new GPU inference slides, and my Vision AI Course

What I've been working on behind the scenes, and what I'm preparing next.

Apr 11 • Alex Razvant

Win an NVIDIA DGX Spark by joining me for Virtual NVIDIA GTC 2026

How to enter the giveaway - and what to expect if you’re an AI engineer building on DGX Spark.

Mar 14 • Alex Razvant

The Engineer’s Guide to AI-Assisted Productivity

Six habits that keep you fast and maintainable. Cursor Rules, Claude Code Skills, Agent Plugins, PR rules, non-nitpicky reviews, hooks, and Daily memory…

Feb 12 • Alex Razvant

Unboxing the NVIDIA DGX Spark: First Impressions

The hardware, The Software components, benchmarks, target audience, and what it can do for AI Developers.

Dec 20, 2025 • Alex Razvant

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