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Gary Stafford

@garystaffordNew York City, USAJoined October 2026

Practical AI engineering: models, agents, and evaluations: from experiments to real-world applications.

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Applied AI Engineer at OpenAI. I write about building AI applications, evaluating models, and turning experiments into practical solutions, drawing on my background in cloud architecture and software engineering.

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Choosing the Right OpenAI Model and Reasoning Level

Your AI application needs answers it can trust, delivered fast enough and at a cost that makes sense. Choosing the right model and reasoning level means defining those requirements and testing which c

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Choosing the Right OpenAI Model and Reasoning Level