Carlo Valenti is a firmware engineer and a father of two. To understand transformers, he built TRiP, a transformer inference engine written from scratch in C (github.com/​​carlovalenti/​​TRiP). He also holds a degree in Theology, which turns out to be handy when a machine starts raising questions about freedom and self-awareness. His first book, “My TRiP through AI”, is part memoir, part essay, part technical field notes. He lives in Italy.