James Briggs.AI Engineering
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Essays and videos on RAG, agents, and the unglamorous engineering that makes them actually work. Written by James Briggs.

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AI EngineeringOct 20, 2025

Building the Future of Agents for Ecommerce

Explore the cutting-edge of AI in ecommerce and how merging LLMs with more traditional predictive AI can enable the next wave of AI-innovation in ecommerce.

28 min
AI EngineeringJul 29, 2025

Building E-commerce Recommendations with Kumo AI

Build world-class recommendation engines with Graph Neural Networks.

10 min
AI EngineeringJul 10, 2025

Alternative LLM Providers in Agents SDK

Moving beyond OpenAI, here we explore how to use Anthropic's Claude with Agents SDK.

4 min
AI EngineeringJul 10, 2025

Guardrails with Agents SDK

Learn how to use input and output guardrails to build safe and reliable AI agents with OpenAI's Agents SDK.

17 min
AI EngineeringJul 10, 2025

Local Agents with Agents SDK

Learn how to use fully local LLMs with Agents SDK, implementing the latest Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct-GGUF.

1 min
AI EngineeringJul 10, 2025

Multi-Agent Systems with Agents SDK

Learn how to build multi-agent systems using both the orchestrator-subagent pattern and handoffs with OpenAI's Agents SDK.

14 min
AI EngineeringJul 10, 2025

Prompting with Agents SDK

Learn how to use static and dynamic prompting, and how to correctly use system, user, assistant, and tool prompts with OpenAI's Agents SDK.

13 min
AI EngineeringJul 10, 2025

RAG Agent with Agents SDK

Learn how to build a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) agent that can answer questions about the JFK assassination files using OpenAI's Agents SDK and Pinecone.

11 min
AI EngineeringJul 10, 2025

Streaming with Agents SDK

Learn how to stream text and events from your AI agents using OpenAI's Agents SDK.

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