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Francesca Lazzeri
@francescalazzeri.bsky.social
- Principal Director, AI Engineering at Microsoft
- Advisor at MIT
- Previously Researcher at Harvard

I chat about #AI, #ML and #DataScience. Based in Boston… Made in Italy!
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Nice and quick guide to get started: GitHub Copilot Chat Cookbook - GitHub Docs #github #copilot ⁦‪@github‬⁩

docs.github.com/en/copilot/t...
GitHub Copilot Chat Cookbook - GitHub Docs
Find examples of prompts to use with GitHub Copilot Chat.
docs.github.com
August 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Reposted by Francesca Lazzeri
What I call Seemingly Conscious AI has been keeping me up at night - so let's talk about it. What it is, why I'm worried, why it matters, and why thinking about this can lead to a better vision for AI. One thing is clear: doing nothing isn't an option. 1/
August 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
As companies increasingly use #AI to transform decision-making, enhance customer experiences, and fuel innovation, one element stands paramount: robust #evaluation frameworks. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...
Observability in Generative AI with Azure AI Foundry - Azure AI Foundry
Learn how Azure AI Foundry enables safe, high-quality generative AI through systematic evaluation and observability tools.
learn.microsoft.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
A curated list of 100+ #LLM libraries for building, deploying, evaluating, and scaling AI systems. github.com/Sumanth077/a...
GitHub - Sumanth077/ai-engineering-toolkit
Contribute to Sumanth077/ai-engineering-toolkit development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
August 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM
A Python library for extracting structured information from unstructured text using LLMs with precise source grounding and interactive visualization #llms #python github.com/google/lange...
GitHub - google/langextract: A Python library for extracting structured information from unstructured text using LLMs with precise source grounding and interactive visualization.
A Python library for extracting structured information from unstructured text using LLMs with precise source grounding and interactive visualization. - google/langextract
github.com
August 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Love this article from my DS and ML team at @microsoft.com. Congratulations Juhi on this well written piece of work: medium.com/data-science...
Comprehensive evaluation framework for LLM-generated content
By Juhi Singh, Bonnie Ao, and Sebastian Antinome
medium.com
April 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
If you want to learn more about #LLMs and #RAG, you should absolutely look at this @github.com repo for a 5-week Learning Journey to Mastering RAG - microsoft/rag-time: github.com/microsoft/ra...
GitHub - microsoft/rag-time: RAG Time: A 5-week Learning Journey to Mastering RAG
RAG Time: A 5-week Learning Journey to Mastering RAG - microsoft/rag-time
github.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Reposted by Francesca Lazzeri
My session at AI Con USA was just published: “RAG at Scale: Building Production-Ready GenAI Solutions”
👉🏼 aiconusa.techwell.com/program/conc... see you all there!
AI Con USA 2025 Concurrent Session : RAG at Scale: Building Production-Ready GenAI Solutions
Attend this session at AI Con USA 2025 : RAG at Scale: Building Production-Ready GenAI Solutions .
aiconusa.techwell.com
February 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
GenerativeAI concepts:
March 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
My session at AI Con USA was just published: “RAG at Scale: Building Production-Ready GenAI Solutions”
👉🏼 aiconusa.techwell.com/program/conc... see you all there!
AI Con USA 2025 Concurrent Session : RAG at Scale: Building Production-Ready GenAI Solutions
Attend this session at AI Con USA 2025 : RAG at Scale: Building Production-Ready GenAI Solutions .
aiconusa.techwell.com
February 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Reposted by Francesca Lazzeri
Since we're at the point of book purging, let me remind all that my book, Computer Science for Kids: A Storytelling Approach, is based on the premise that _anyone_ can learn how to code. There's even a hidden curriculum around sustainability. Take a look at the web site: cs4kids.club.
Computer Science for Kids, lesson plans
cs4kids.club
February 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I loved reading this post on LLM codegen workflow: harper.blog/2025/02/16/m... @harper.lol
My LLM codegen workflow atm
A detailed walkthrough of my current workflow for using LLms to build software, from brainstorming through planning and execution.
harper.blog
February 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
If you want to learn more about #AI and #Agents, this is a great course to get started: huggingface.co/learn/agents...
Introduction to Agents - Hugging Face Agents Course
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
February 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I will be speaking at #InfoQDevSummit in Boston in May 2025! Excited to share the latest innovations and learnings in AI for data scientists and ML scientists. @infoq.com
🚀 Why attend #InfoQDevSummit Boston 2025?

🎤 Learn from senior developers.
✅ Get actionable takeaways.
🛠️ Stay current.
🌍 Gain new perspectives.
🤝 Connect with peers.

👥 Bringing your team? Group discounts available for 3+.

🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/3Qarqmq
February 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I just reviewed the technical content of this course and I love the depth and hand on exercises/use cases offered. I leave the link here in case you want to learn AutoGen framework to build multi-agent systems www.deeplearning.ai/short-course...
AI Agentic Design Patterns with AutoGen
Use the AutoGen framework to build multi-agent systems with diverse roles and capabilities for implementing complex AI applications.
www.deeplearning.ai
February 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee are co-founders of a new biotech startup that uses AI to unlock speedier drug discoveries www.entrepreneur.com/business-new...
LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman Launches Manas AI, a New Bio Startup | Entrepreneur
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee are co-founders of a new biotech startup that uses AI to unlock speedier drug discoveries for aggressive cancers.
www.entrepreneur.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Happy Sunday blue sky! 3 GitHub Repos to learn more about #AI and #ML

1. Neural Networks: Zero to Hero from Andrej Karpathy.
lnkd.in/erA-Gerp

2. Machine Learning Andrew Ng’s lectures
lnkd.in/ebtWemWD

3. Deep Learning Specialization - Andrew Ng’s lectures & practice problems
lnkd.in/e2RECCSQ
January 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I will be in speaking at the AI ODSC in Boston in May 2025! See the first list of speakers and sessions here: odsc.com/boston/speak... Many workshops and trainings on #AI and #ML... I hope to see you there!
ODSC East 2025 Speakers
Check out the list of ODSC East 2023 speakers and topics to get more information about the selection of insightful workshops & trainings
odsc.com
January 10, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Interesting and lightweight article … I hope you all enjoy:
www.fastcompany.com/91254053/25-... #AI
25 experts predict how AI will change business and life in 2025
Expect to see the rise of AI agents and multimodal models, along with an end to “AI theater.”
www.fastcompany.com
January 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Happy End of 2024! To celebrate new beginnings, here is a list of books to learn #AI:
🧱 LLMs from Scratch – Sebastian Raschka, PhD 
⚙️ MLOps vs DevOps – Ville Tuulos, Hugo Bowne-Anderson
🧪 LLM Evaluation – Hamel H.
🚀 Generative AI Platforms – Chip Huyen
🛠️ Generative AI Guidebook – Ravin Kumar
December 31, 2024 at 1:59 PM
So proud of my #AI dev team and #DataScience team at #Microsoft for building and owning this publication on Medium for 5 years! If you want to read about our DS/ML/AI projects, check this out: medium.com/data-science...
December 10, 2024 at 3:18 PM