Hello, I’m Paul.

I help engineers ship AI products.

I’m the author of the bestseller LLMs Engineer’s Handbook, lead instructor of the Agentic AI Engineering course, and one of the founding AI engineers of a San Francisco start-up.
But my path here was anything but direct.
My family lost everything in the 2008 financial crisis. As a teenager, I spiraled into destructive habits.
Then, at 18, I made a U-turn, studying relentlessly to rebuild my future. That resilience still fuels my work today.

Now, I teach AI Engineering as I wanted to at the beginning of my career. End-to-end.
My goal is to help others escape the PoC purgatory I faced for the first five years of my career. That’s why I created Decoding AI Magazine.
When I’m not working, I spend time with my fiancée and cats, traveling, gaming, cooking, and working out.

The

Decoding AI Magazine.

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Real-world guides taking you from the PoC purgatory to shipping AI products that work.
Every Tuesday morning, you’ll get one free actionable tip to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI systems in less that 8 minutes.
Join 40,000+ engineers by subscribing to the magazine.

Hello, I’m Paul.

I help engineers ship AI products.

I’m the author of the bestseller LLMs Engineer’s Handbook, lead instructor of the Agentic AI Engineering course, and one of the founding AI engineers of a San Francisco start-up.

But my path here was anything but direct.

My family lost everything in the 2008 financial crisis. As a teenager, I spiraled into destructive habits.

Then, at 18, I made a U-turn, studying relentlessly to rebuild my future. That resilience still fuels my work today.

Now, I teach AI Engineering as I wanted to at the beginning of my career. End-to-end.

My goal is to help others escape the PoC purgatory I faced for the first five years of my career. That’s why I created Decoding AI Magazine.

When I’m not working, I spend time with my fiancée and cats, traveling, gaming, cooking, and working out.

The

Decoding AI Magazine.

Real-world guides taking you from the PoC purgatory to shipping AI products that work.

Every Tuesday morning, you’ll get one free actionable tip to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI systems in less that 8 minutes.

Join 40,000+ engineers by subscribing to the magazine.

Paul Iusztin