Carlos Chinchilla Corbacho

Trust,
but trace

Most of what makes ML systems trustworthy is unglamorous: traces, fixtures, contracts, replays. This is a journal of that work, written from inside production.

Topics

Areas I write about

Six threads that keep coming back. Click one to see every piece tagged with it.

On the desk

Reading list

What I’m working through this season.

  • 01
    AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models
    Chip Huyen · 2025
    Book
  • 02
    Latent Space — Artificial Analysis on independent LLM evals
    swyx & Micah Hill-Smith · Jan 2026
    Podcast
  • 03
    Multimodal, Real-Time AI Agent Systems
    Heiko Hotz & Sokratis Kartakis · 2027
    Book
  • 04
    EU AI Act — Article 15: Accuracy, Robustness, Cybersecurity
    European Commission · 2024
    Reference
  • 05
    Hands-On Large Language Models
    Jay Alammar & Maarten Grootendorst · 2024
    Book
  • 06
    Constitutional Classifiers
    Anthropic · 2025
    Paper
  • 07
    Pragmatic Engineer — Inside engineering at frontier labs
    Gergely Orosz · 2026
    Podcast