# beginner's guide (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover beginner's guide. Page: Feed: --- ## [AI Traffic Now Converts 54% Better Than Everything Else. Many Sites Can't Be Read by It!](https://aiagentssimplified.substack.com/p/ai-traffic-now-converts-54-better) _2026-08-18 · AI Agents Simplified · AI Agents Simplified_ AI assistants are reading the web on your users' behalf. Adobe just put a number on how badly most pages handle that and it turns out "AI visibility" is a retrieval problem, not a marketing one. ## [I Built the Outreach System I Couldn’t Find](https://aiagentssimplified.substack.com/p/i-built-the-outreach-system-i-couldnt) _2026-08-13 · AI Agents Simplified · AI Agents Simplified_ How a simple outreach workflow slowly turned into a system that checks replies, handles follow-ups, personalizes messages, and keeps track of what happened. ## [A Hands-on Real-World ML project: Inside a $35K Kaggle competition (pt.1)](https://aiagentssimplified.substack.com/p/a-hands-on-real-world-ml-project) _2026-08-11 · AI Agents Simplified · AI Agents Simplified_ Follow this guide and learn how to do a machine learning project step by step ## [Morality Is Dead — And Walter Veit Has Killed It](https://lorenzoelijah.substack.com/p/morality-is-dead-and-walter-veit) _2026-08-08 · Lorenzo Elijah, PhD · First Principles_ How shall he comfort himself, the murderer of murderers? ## [How to Actually Learn ML in 2026: The Complete Beginner's Guide](https://aiagentssimplified.substack.com/p/how-to-actually-learn-ml-in-2026) _2026-08-06 · AI Agents Simplified · AI Agents Simplified_ A chapter-by-chapter reading guide to Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and PyTorch by Aurélien Géron (O'Reilly, 2025) ## [Swing Low, Sweet Chariot](https://lorenzoelijah.substack.com/p/swing-low-sweet-chariot) _2026-08-05 · Lorenzo Elijah, PhD · First Principles_ The story of a banger ## [7 Failures Nobody Warns You About Shipping An AI Agent](https://aiagentssimplified.substack.com/p/7-failures-nobody-warns-you-about) _2026-08-04 · AI Agents Simplified · AI Agents Simplified_ 7 failure modes that only show up after real users arrive and the architecture patterns that contain them. ## [The Biggest AI Failures Start With Tiny Mistakes](https://aiagentssimplified.substack.com/p/the-biggest-ai-failures-start-with) _2026-07-30 · AI Agents Simplified · AI Agents Simplified_ What a neural network attack reveals about building more resilient AI systems. ## [Good Writing Is Good Mind-Reading](https://lorenzoelijah.substack.com/p/good-writing-is-good-mind-reading) _2026-07-29 · Lorenzo Elijah, PhD · First Principles_ A first-principles guide to writing, for people who want to be understood. ## [How to Become an AI Engineer: The Complete Beginner's Guide](https://aiagentssimplified.substack.com/p/how-to-become-an-ai-engineer-the) _2026-07-28 · AI Agents Simplified · AI Agents Simplified_ A chapter-by-chapter reading guide to AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models by Chip Huyen (O'Reilly, 2025) ## [Dissecting Series A Rounds (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/dlAa8LhlM3Wu) _2026-07-28 · **Sponsored**_ Two real Series A cases: timelines, investor sequencing, and common founder mistakes. ## [The AI Lesson Hidden Inside a Heart Failure Prediction Paper](https://aiagentssimplified.substack.com/p/the-ai-lesson-hidden-inside-a-heart) _2026-07-23 · Arian Jafari · AI Agents Simplified_ The future of AI will not be defined by systems that make fewer mistakes, but by systems that understand which mistakes matter. ## [What You Should Know About Loop Engineering (Part 2)](https://aiagentssimplified.substack.com/p/what-you-should-know-about-loop-engineering-a0d) _2026-07-21 · AI Agents Simplified · AI Agents Simplified_ Welcome to the 60th issue of AI Agents Simplified 🍻 ## [What You Should Know About Loop Engineering (Part 1)](https://aiagentssimplified.substack.com/p/what-you-should-know-about-loop-engineering) _2026-07-16 · AI Agents Simplified · AI Agents Simplified_ Why You Should Stop Prompting Your AI Agent and Start Designing Its Job ## [Linch: Lorenzo Chat! (Philosophy, AI, Humor, everything else)](https://lorenzoelijah.substack.com/p/linch-lorenzo-chat-philosophy-ai) _2026-07-15 · Lorenzo Elijah, PhD · First Principles_ A recording from Lorenzo Elijah, PhD and Linch's live video [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207203633/cddc7be2035587c0348ca3793b9d8976.mp3) ## [Your AI Agent Has More Access Than You Think](https://aiagentssimplified.substack.com/p/your-ai-agent-has-more-access-than) _2026-07-14 · AI Agents Simplified · AI Agents Simplified_ Most teams lock down their code. Almost nobody locks down their agent's tools. ## [We Were Wrong About AI Agents](https://aiagentssimplified.substack.com/p/we-were-wrong-about-ai-agents) _2026-07-09 · AI Agents Simplified · AI Agents Simplified_ Inside the massive shift to Agentic Engineering, the cure for Context Rot, and the open protocols taking AI mainstream. ## [A Philosopher Finds Love In Tesco](https://lorenzoelijah.substack.com/p/a-philosopher-finds-love-in-tesco) _2026-07-08 · Lorenzo Elijah, PhD · First Principles_ How I met my wife ## [If You're Confused About the 3 New Terms in AI Agents, Read This...](https://aiagentssimplified.substack.com/p/if-youre-confused-about-the-3-new) _2026-07-07 · AI Agents Simplified · AI Agents Simplified_ Harness Engineering, Loop Engineering, Hermes AI: What They Are and Why Everyone's Talking About Them ## [Every AI Agent Tutorial Starts in the Wrong Place](https://aiagentssimplified.substack.com/p/every-ai-agent-tutorial-starts-in) _2026-07-01 · AI Agents Simplified · AI Agents Simplified_ Here's a repo that gets the order right. ## [BREAKING NEWS: Neoliberalism Is Cool Now](https://lorenzoelijah.substack.com/p/breaking-news-neoliberalism-is-cool) _2026-06-26 · Lorenzo Elijah, PhD · First Principles_ Why the world's most hated ideology is worth a second look ## [Follow Releases, Get Reminders (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/JBtyD4wIJgj8) _2026-06-26 · **Sponsored**_ Follow a genre or a name and receive reminders on release day — free. ## [Stop Guessing Why Users Leave Your AI Product](https://aiagentssimplified.substack.com/p/stop-guessing-why-users-leave-your) _2026-06-25 · AI Agents Simplified · AI Agents Simplified_ A deep dive into the 2026 framework extracting exact churn triggers straight from natural language feedback. ## [Why 90% of AI Agents Fail in Production?](https://aiagentssimplified.substack.com/p/why-90-of-ai-agents-fail-in-production) _2026-06-23 · AI Agents Simplified · AI Agents Simplified_ The architecture mistake everyone makes on their first build and the exact blueprint to solve it. ## [Rule #1 of Production-Ready Agents: Propose and Validate](https://aiagentssimplified.substack.com/p/rule-1-of-production-ready-agents) _2026-06-18 · AI Agents Simplified · AI Agents Simplified_ AI Agents Are Easy to Demo, Hard to Ship; The Backend Architecture of Reliable Agents ## [The Hidden Cost of Starting From Scratch](https://aiagentssimplified.substack.com/p/the-hidden-cost-of-starting-from) _2026-06-16 · AI Agents Simplified · AI Agents Simplified_ Every Claude Code session begins amnesiac. The fix isn't a better prompt; it's a system that compounds. ## [30 Reasons You Know You’re a Philosopher](https://lorenzoelijah.substack.com/p/30-reasons-you-know-youre-a-philosopher) _2026-06-13 · Lorenzo Elijah, PhD · First Principles_ If you're a philosopher, let's see how many you recognise. ## [Why Your Best Arguments Convince No One (And How To Fix It)](https://lorenzoelijah.substack.com/p/why-your-best-arguments-convince) _2026-06-13 · Lorenzo Elijah, PhD · First Principles_ Rational persuasion is the name of the game. With good arguments you can get closer to truth and persuade others to follow. But most arguments fail to change minds. This article explains why. ## [How to Write an Authentic Technical Blog Post Using LLMs](https://aiagentssimplified.substack.com/p/how-to-write-an-authentic-technical) _2026-06-11 · AI Agents Simplified · AI Agents Simplified_ A deep dive for engineers, researchers, and practitioners who want their writing to actually say something. ## [AI Engineering From Scratch](https://aiagentssimplified.substack.com/p/ai-engineering-from-scratch) _2026-06-09 · AI Agents Simplified · AI Agents Simplified_ Use this guide to learn AI engineering ## [It’s Ok To Be Dogmatic (Sometimes)](https://lorenzoelijah.substack.com/p/its-ok-to-be-dogmatic-sometimes) _2026-06-09 · Lorenzo Elijah, PhD · First Principles_ Agrippa's trilemma is one of the oldest puzzles in philosophy, and still one of the most important. Here is how to navigate it without falling into skepticism. ## [What "Agentic" Actually Costs to Wire Together](https://aiagentssimplified.substack.com/p/what-agentic-actually-costs-to-wire) _2026-06-04 · AI Agents Simplified · AI Agents Simplified_ Lessons on context discipline, state validation, and closing the feedback loop from building a purely social LLM game. ## [Privacy-first AI-native browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/62ZwzmZZOrDw) _2026-06-04 · **Sponsored**_ No telemetry or ads — built on Ungoogled Chromium with a built-in AI sidebar and CLI. ## [I Used To Think Queen Lizzy Was A Lizard Lady](https://lorenzoelijah.substack.com/p/i-used-to-think-queen-lizzy-was-a) _2026-05-26 · Lorenzo Elijah, PhD · First Principles_ Conspiracy theories are easy to fall for, but hard to spot. Here’s how you can protect your mind from them.