Archive - Decoding AI Magazine

How to Design Python AI Projects That Don't Fall Apart

A framework-agnostic approach to modular agents, workflows, and LLM apps using the pragmatic clean architecture design.

Jan 13 • Paul Iusztin

The Realistic Guide to Mastering AI Agents in 2026

From zero to production in 6–9 months. What to learn, what to skip, and why most tutorials fail.

Jan 6 • Paolo Perrone

December 2025

From 100+ AI Tools to 4: My Prod Stack

How simplicity beats complexity in real AI systems

Dec 30, 2025 • Paul Iusztin

We Killed RAG, MCP, and Agentic Loops. Here's What Happened.

A brutally honest case study of building our vertical AI agent and shipping it to production.

Dec 23, 2025 • Paul Iusztin

November Highlights: From Foundations To Production AI

AI Agents series finale. Controlling LLM output. Vertical AI agents & The Evals series.

Dec 18, 2025 • Paul Iusztin

The AI Agents Roadmap Nobody Is Teaching You

9 lessons: from workflows to planning and multimodal AI agents. From scratch. Framework free.

Dec 16, 2025 • Paul Iusztin

Stop Converting Documents to Text. You're Doing It Wrong.

How to work with multimodal agents: images, PDFs, audio, and... text.

Dec 9, 2025 • Paul Iusztin

How Does Memory for AI Agents Work?

The 4 memory types every AI agent needs

Dec 2, 2025 • Paul Iusztin

November 2025

Being too passive started to bother me

Finally, officializing the Decoding AI Magazine chat.

Nov 26, 2025 • Paul Iusztin

The Underrated Science of LLM Samplers

The secret sauce for balancing diversity, quality and precision

Nov 25, 2025 • Shmulik Cohen

Building Production ReAct Agents From Scratch Is Simple

I read LangGraph's implementation so that you can build your own, as AI frameworks just bloat your code.

Nov 18, 2025 • Paul Iusztin

You're Not Building Agents: Learn the Fundamentals From Scratch

Why planning is the missing piece between tool loops and true AI agents.

Nov 11, 2025 • Paul Iusztin

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