Jay Wengrow
Software engineer, founder of the coding bootcamp Actualize, and author of A Common-Sense Guide to AI Engineering and other Pragmatic Programmers titles, focusing on practical engineering of AI systems.
Best podcasts with Jay Wengrow
Ranked by the Snipd community
10 snips
Apr 28, 2026 • 27min
A Common-Sense Guide to AI Engineering • Jay Wengrow & Kris Jenkins
Jay Wengrow, software engineer, founder of Actualize and author of practical programming books. He explains how text LLMs become agents by emitting special notations that trigger real functions. They cover guardrails like regex and judge models, splitting work across specialized models, a 150-line podcast-generating agent, and why building from first principles can beat premature frameworks.
