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Four books, 29 chapters
Written to teach, not to summarise. Every chapter carries diagrams built to show a mechanism rather than decorate a page.
8 CHAPTERS
The Interview Spine
The seven things every archetype on this site tests, whatever the job title. Start here if you are preparing for an interview.
Cross-cutting. Each chapter is linked from every role that tests it.
7 CHAPTERS
AI from First Principles
Seven chapters, no mathematics assumed. What a model actually is, what training means, why it is confidently wrong, embeddings, RAG, agents, and evaluation.
Written for people who have to make decisions about AI without having built it.
7 CHAPTERS
Securing & Governing AI
The attack surface that is genuinely new, the risks that are old in new clothes, model risk, what audit evidence looks like, the frameworks, and how to be the function that enables.
Assumes AI from First Principles. Read that one first if any of it is unfamiliar.
7 CHAPTERS
Identity & Access
Authentication versus authorisation, federation, the joiner-mover-leaver lifecycle, entitlements, privileged access, secrets, and machine identity.
Deliberately not framed through AI — this is a discipline in its own right. The last chapter is where the two meet.