{"id":107,"date":"2026-09-29T12:31:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/ai-club\/?p=107"},"modified":"2026-09-29T12:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:36:20","slug":"from-oblivion-to-comprehension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/ai-club\/2026\/09\/29\/from-oblivion-to-comprehension\/","title":{"rendered":"From Oblivion to Comprehension"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Knowing how to be a Proper Engineer in 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hi, I&#8217;m Quam. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I went from not knowing data structures to deploying and understanding 7+ applications touching recommendation systems, MCP servers, RAG, and Voice Agents in under a year. But anyone can claim understanding. So in this series, I aim to prove that to you by doing what I arguably do best. Yap.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is simply an introduction. Would love to hear what you guys think and whether this would be something y&#8217;all would be interested in reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowing how to be a Proper Engineer in 2026 Hi, I&#8217;m Quam. I went from not knowing data structures to deploying and understanding 7+ applications touching recommendation systems, MCP servers, RAG, and Voice Agents in under a year. But anyone can claim understanding. So in this series, I aim to prove that to you by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/ai-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/ai-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/ai-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/ai-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/ai-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/ai-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/ai-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/ai-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/ai-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/ai-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}