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Scaling up and streamlining a multi-agent architecture doesn't necessarily entail escalated costs if you know how to properly implement these four strategies for saving token usage.

Large language models understand text well, but they become less effective when information is scattered across documents or mixed with images and other media. Modern AI systems rely on vector databases, which store embeddings and enable similarity search across collections. LanceDB is a vector data...

Claude Design is a research preview under Anthropic Labs, powered by Claude Opus' vision capability, generating interactive prototypes with working navigation, embedded video, voice input, and 3D elements.

Claude can review data, check code, write reports, and prepare presentations, but teams still end up repeating the same structure, validation rules, company standards, and final-check instructions in every conversation. That repetition wastes time and often leads to inconsistent results. Custom Skil...

With this introductory guide to practical constraint decoding, you'll no longer need to beg your model to "output valid JSON without including any markdown."

Discover five of the best AI tools for data analysis that can clean data, write code, create visualizations, and generate insights faster.

Data science case study interviews are not just about writing code. They test how you think through a problem, analyze data, make decisions, and explain your approach in a way that solves a real business challenge. In this guide, you’ll learn a simple framework called SCOPE that you can use to appro...

Earlier this year, an autonomous AI agent breached McKinsey’s internal AI platform using nothing more than an old SQL injection flaw. No credentials. No human guidance. Less than two hours. It reached production systems, exposing millions of chat messages and hundreds of thousands of files. AI secur...

For months, Claude Code has been the go to terminal coding agent for developers. Then Grok Build arrived in beta on May 14, 2026, giving developers a second serious option and raising a new question: which one actually performs better? I tested both agents on the same real world coding tasks using i...

Large language models often receive more information than they need. A prompt may include long instructions, retrieved documents, chat history, examples, and tool descriptions. This increases token usage, cost, and response time. It can also make important details harder for the model to identify. P...

Discover seven cheaper, faster Claude Code alternatives for CLI agentic coding, with open-source tools, local models, MCP support, and better context control.

This scene is playing out across engineering teams everywhere. Someone wraps a few LangChain calls inside a loop, adds a couple of tools, and proudly declares, “We’ve built an AI agent.” The demo looks great. Everyone is impressed. Then it goes to production. The first unexpected input arrives. The ...

This article walks through the actual configuration, permissions, hooks, and command habits that separate a fresh install from a setup that holds up under real, sustained agentic work.

Thinking Machines Lab has unveiled Inkling, its first general-purpose open-weights foundation model. It is a multimodal MoE model with 975B parameters, 41B active parameters, and a 1M-token context window. Rather than chasing benchmark supremacy, Inkling is designed as a customizable foundation for ...

If you’ve spent any time on GitHub Trending this month, you’ve probably noticed a pattern: it isn’t research papers turning into repositories anymore, it’s agents. Coding agents, pentesting agents, trading agents, and the infrastructure that ties them all together. We tracked star growth, momentum, ...

Connecting MCP servers to Claude allows it to work with external tools, files, databases, repositories, and other systems instead of operating only within the chat window. The setup differs slightly between Claude Desktop and Claude Code, but both can be configured in just a few steps. In this artic...

GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 are currently fighting for the frontier-model crown. Fable 5 holds a slight edge in general intelligence, while Sol hits back with stronger coding performance, faster execution and much lower pricing. In fact, GPT-5.6 Sol is priced closer to Claude Opus 4.8 than to Fab...

Explore 10 YouTube channels for AI engineers covering paper breakdowns, coding tutorials, and industry analysis.

Learn a cleaner, more extensible way to dispatch logic in Python.

THE GIST ▸ What it is: A 3,826-line system prompt steering Claude Fable 5 inside the Claude app, pulled from a public GitHub archive. ▸ What’s in it: Rules about safety, tone and restraint. ▸ Why it matters: it shows a frontier “AI” is far more an engineered rulebook than a mysterious mind. Before y...

Prompts shape every interaction with a large language model. Clear instructions produce focused, useful responses, while vague ones often lead to inconsistent results. This becomes harder when teams need the same task completed repeatedly in a fixed format, tone, or structure. Meta-prompting asks th...

Two short clips. One question: how alike do they look? Sounds trivial, it isn’t, and I learned that the slow way.  My setup: one reference clip, eight others to rank against it, all waterfalls (more on why in a second). I figured this was an afternoon job, grab a model, compute a number, move on. […...

LLMs are getting stronger every day, and building a RAG pipeline has never been easier. Knowing whether it actually works is not. Most teams ship a RAG system, see decent-looking answers, and call it done, until users hit hallucination, missing context, or irrelevant chunks. That’s where evaluation ...

Stop writing mean() and std() for every column. Learn how to automate descriptive statistics in Python and generate publication-ready summary tables in just a few steps.