Reading List

Reading list

What is worth reading, checked rather than remembered.

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The standard this page holds itself to

Every link here returned a response on 2026-08-24. That date is on the page because a reading list is a perishable artifact and one that does not say when it was checked is asking you to trust it indefinitely.

Nothing is listed because it is famous. Four entries that were on the repo's resource files are gone from this page: they 404 and there is no successor. A dead link in a curated list is worse than an absent one, because it costs the reader a click to learn what the curator could have learned once.

Papers and research

Adaptation of Agentic AI · Jiang, Lin, Shi et al., arXiv:2512.16301v1, 18 Dec 2025 · arXiv · companion repo

The taxonomy of what actually changes in an agentic system. CC BY-NC-ND, so read it at the source. What we do with it.

Papers With Code, retrieval-augmented generation · paperswithcode.com

Leaderboards and implementations rather than prose. Useful when you need to know whether a claimed result has code behind it.

Libraries worth knowing by name

	What it is	Why it is here
sentence-transformers	Sentence embeddings, many pretrained models	The default answer for general-purpose embeddings
deepeval	An evaluation framework for LLM output	Evaluation you can put in CI, which is the only kind that survives

⚠️ Two corrections carried from resources/. Both of these were listed under the wrong URL and both 404 today. sentence-transformers lives under UKPLab, not under its own name; deepeval lives under confident-ai. The second one is worse than a moved repo: the repo's community-repos.md ships a clone command reading github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/deepeval, a template placeholder that was published and never filled in.

Vendor and platform material

	What it is
awslabs/generative-ai-cdk-constructs	CDK constructs for deploying generative AI workloads, RAG included. Moved from aws-samples
databricks-demos/dbdemos-notebooks	The demo notebooks, including the RAG chatbot with evaluation. Replaces llm-rag-chatbot, which is gone
databricks-industry-solutions	Vertical reference implementations

Vendor documentation is deliberately not listed by deep link. Deep links into vendor docs are the single largest source of rot in the repo's existing resource files: the Anthropic RAG guide URL that was listed has moved, and the same will happen to any replacement. Link to the docs root and let the reader search, or cite the concept and not the page.

Market and industry figures

Read these with the repo's evidence standard in hand. Every entry below is a vendor or analyst publication with an interest in the number it reports.

Gartner's press releases on generative-AI project abandonment and on AI project longevity, the RAND report on why AI projects fail, and McKinsey's State of AI are all cited in the repo's resource files and all four block automated checking. They were confirmed to exist by hand and are listed here without deep links to their landing pages, because an analyst URL is a redirect waiting to happen.

The rule that matters more than the list: a figure is publishable when someone else could re-derive it from a source you name. An analyst press release is a source you can name. It is not a source anyone can re-derive.

Community

r/MachineLearning · r/LocalLLaMA

Both block automated checks and both resolve in a browser.

Two YouTube channels were dropped. The handles listed in further-reading.md for the MLOps Community and for an AI engineering channel both 404, and no successor handle resolved under the obvious spellings. A channel that has been renamed is not findable from a dead handle, and guessing at a replacement is how a reading list starts recommending the wrong thing.

What was checked, and what it found

Links in resources/ on 2026-08-24	122
Resolved	105
Dead, dropped	4 (two YouTube handles and one Databricks demo repo with no successor; one vendor doc deep link whose successor exists but is deliberately not deep-linked)
Dead, successor found and used here	3 (sentence-transformers, deepeval, generative-ai-cdk-constructs)
Bot-blocked, confirmed by hand	7 (analyst, research and community sites)
Timed out	2

The resources/ files themselves have not been edited. Fixing them is a change to the public repo and needs a separate pass and your yes. This page is what a reader should be given in the meantime.

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