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What Makes 5% of AI Agents Actually Work in Production?
Beyond the Prompt: Notes from the Context Frontier
 • Oana Olteanu
Fine Tuning LLMs - learnings from the DeepLearning SF Meetup
11 years ago, NASA marked the 135th and final mission of the American Space Shuttle program.
 • Oana Olteanu
Founder Mental Software
While most VCs debug your pitch, I focus on understanding your System Prompt.
 • Oana Olteanu
Llama 3 Secrets Every Engineer Must Know
Data, training procedures and compute are the secrets of big labs and available only to the GPU rich.
 • Oana Olteanu
AI Engineer World’s Fair 2025 - Field Notes
(San Francisco • 3-5 June 2025 • ≈3 000 attendees • 18 parallel tracks)
 • Oana Olteanu
My First Angel Investment Just Sold for $3.6B. Here's What I Saw.
On workflow, responsibility, and why the best software starts with the work itself.
 • Oana Olteanu
Are Semantic Layers the treasure map for LLMs?
Semantic layers are not new, they started in 1991, when BusinessObjects patented the semantic layer. It’s a great concept but it hasn’t really taken…
 • Oana Olteanu
Your Sleep Debt is Diluting Your Equity
A note for founders who think sleep is a luxury.
 • Oana Olteanu
Mapping Work, Not Markets
A Process-First Investment Thesis for Enterprise AI
 • Oana Olteanu
AI Engineers Are Getting 3x the Equity of Regular Engineers
What 50 AI engineers told me about their compensation, and why founders need to radically rethink their equity budgets
 • Oana Olteanu
Agentic systems: panning for gold
In the rush to harness AI's potential, it’s essential to distinguish between groundbreaking innovations and overhyped promises.
 • Oana Olteanu
7 Key Questions - learnings from my founder story
How to vet a potential co-founder
 • Oana Olteanu
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