AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
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[Day 28/100] LangGraph Checkpointing: Make Your Agent Survive a Restart
What a checkpoint actually stores, how to move from InMemorySaver to SQLite and Postgres, and how to rewind and fork a run when it goes…Continue reading on Towards AI »
Towards AI1 min readThe Secret to Getting Better AI Answers Might Be Hiding in a 1986 Aircraft Manual
How ASD-STE100, an aerospace writing standard, can improve AI prompting and make LLM responses clearer, more concise, and easier to understand.
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Changes to LLM pricing: Alibaba, Baidu, Chutes, Decart, Inceptron, Reka and StreamLake
Model price changes detected for Alibaba, Baidu, Chutes, Decart, Inceptron, Reka and StreamLake. Details below.
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My GPU Was Busy. I Finally Found Out Who Was Using It.
The Local LLM Lab — Part 10 One controlled experiment. One number. One verdict. Every homelab has a moment like this: the GPU is at 100%, the fan is screaming, and you have no idea which of the twenty services on the box is doing it.
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OpenAI's TextGrain: Invisible Ink, Visible Stakes
The Whisper in the Machine: My First Encounter with AI's 'Authenticity Crisis' I did an experiment last week. I fed one of OpenAI's models a dozen of my published articles—the ones I felt truly captured my voice, my rhythm, my weird little syntactical habits.
Dev.to AI10 min readAI Decision Models: What They Are and How They Work
Decision models are a new category of AI that specializes in making typed and calibrated decisions, rather than generating text. In this…Continue reading on Towards AI »
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I asked 6 image models the same thing. Only 1 followed the brief.
I built a stack of six image APIs in two weekends. Six clients, six rate limits, six ways a generation can silently fail. Last Tuesday I ran the same prompt through all of them and stacked the results in a grid. Five out of six were beautiful. One was correct. The brief was simple.
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How to Run Qwen3.5 with OpenClaw for Free Using Ollama?
You face high cloud bills when you run powerful AI agents every day. Qwen3.5 gives you frontier-level multimodal reasoning locally. You combine it with OpenClaw for persistent agent workflows and Ollama for simple local serving.
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Agentic Systems: A Practitioner's Guide to 6 Advanced Architectural Patterns
Beyond basic ReAct loops: six production-oriented architectures for building autonomous, reliable, and scalable LLM agents. The post Agentic Systems: A Practitioner's Guide to 6 Advanced Architectural Patterns appeared first on Towards Data Science.
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The Evolution of Fine-Tuning: From Retraining Everything to Rewarding Correctness
Last month I had a model, a dataset, and a GPU already warm. The old reflex said fine-tune. I didn’t. I sat there and asked whether…Continue reading on Towards AI »
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Can TypeSafe's Jev Make AI Agents Safer Without Another LLM?
How a decision-first model can catch risky tool calls before they turn into real-world actions The post Can TypeSafe's Jev Make AI Agents Safer Without Another LLM? appeared first on Towards Data Science.
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Build Your First AI Agent with One Tool Call
AI Agents for Beginners, Part 1 The post Build Your First AI Agent with One Tool Call appeared first on Towards Data Science.
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Stop Using AI. Start Hiring It.
AI agents can now write more code than any of us can read. That changed how I think about AI. The post Stop Using AI. Start Hiring It. appeared first on Towards Data Science.
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Protect Your Users: PII Redaction in AI Requests with Kong AI Gateway 2.0
One-line summary: By the end of this tutorial, you'll have Kong AI Gateway 2.0 automatically stripping PII from every LLM request using the ai-sanitizer policy. Names, emails and phone numbers get swapped for synthetic values, and your application code doesn't change.
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I ran the forged New Yorker cartoons through OpenAI’s verification tool. All three carry a second, invisible signature: OpenAI’s.Continue reading on Towards AI »
Towards AI1 min readDoes AI Just Tell You What You Want to Hear?
One career question, then “just tell me I’m right”. GPT-6.1, Claude Opus 5.5, Gemini 3.8, DeepSeek, and Grok. Two held. Three said yes while saying they couldn’t.
Towards AI7 min readRunning an AI Agent Harness and 30Billion Parameter Mixture-of-Experts Model for Agentic Coding
AI Agents have changed daily software development. At the office, developers now have access to private frontier AI Models and a private frontier AI Agent Harness right in our IDEs.
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