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That is a slightly awkward introduction to OpenAI Dot, but a useful one. In this article I’ll be discussing what this autonomous 24/7 agent (which consumes no usage) can do, what it is, how you can access it (along with its setup), and a live analytics exercise I ran after on Dot. By the time […] Th...

A practical guide to what changed, the benchmarks that matter, the cost controls developers should not miss, and one hands-on demo worth building.  Anthropic has just released Claude Sonnet 5.5. It is the middle child of the Claude family, and the one most people will actually use. It is quick, capa...

Putting AI into production now takes more than deploying a model and tracking accuracy. MLOps made traditional ML manageable, while LLMOps added concerns around prompts, retrieval, evaluation, latency, and cost.  AgentOps adds another layer for systems that decide, call tools, and complete multi-ste...

If you spent any time on GitHub Trending in August, you probably noticed the centre of gravity had shifted again. Models took a back seat to the machinery around them: agent harnesses, skills, memory layers, gateways, and document tooling. One repository alone gained more than 190,000 stars in four ...

If you have ever tried downloading a local LLM, you have probably seen model names that look like this:  Qwen3.8-27B-A3B-It-2507-gguf-q2ks-mixed-AutoRound At first, it looks like meaningless technical shorthand.  It isn’t!  Every part of that name tells you something about the model: how large it is...

Proprietary models are amazing! But sometimes what is of importance is configurability rather than raw power. This has led to the emergence of locally hosted models.  The Mac mini has emerged as a surprisingly capable machine for running AI locally. With Apple Silicon, enough unified memory, and too...

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 is a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model built with a Mixture-of-Experts architecture. It activates only a small fraction of its parameters per token, helping reduce inference costs while delivering strong coding and agentic performance. K3 combines near-frontier capabilit...

Modern LLMs rely on quantization, pruning, distillation, and faster attention kernels, but production performance often depends most on KV cache management. As context windows grow, the cache consumes significant GPU memory, limiting concurrency, throughput, and latency. Two breakthroughs transforme...

Claude now marks AI-generated content. But it does not mark everything the same way. Anthropic currently uses embedded watermarks for text and signed C2PA provenance metadata for supported files. Code sits somewhere in between: it is still text, but its structure gives the watermark fewer places to ...

Ever wondered how ChatGPT, Gemini, and other chat interfaces generate PDFs, PowerPoints, and more when all they have under the hood is an LLM? The trick isn’t a smarter model. It’s something simpler: skills which are instructions an agent loads only when needed. Next, let’s explore how skills work u...

If you have already used Codex in ChatGPT, the Codex CLI will feel familiar. It brings the same AI assistance directly into your local development environment, where it can work with your repository, shell, tests, and other tools. Installation takes only one command, but the setup choices that follo...

In the rush to automate evaluation, from grading student code to ranking research papers, we have embraced Large Language Models as judges. They are fast. These units are cheap. They scale. However, at a workshop at DHS 2026, Bhaskarjit Sarmah made a point that stuck with me: “you can’t trust LLM as...

First, pick the line that applies to you. Since August 2nd, 2026, Claude marks all content during generation. For instance, text receives a hidden watermark, while files receive a signature. Anthropic committed to the EU AI Act’s Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content. Consequently...

You have probably heard by now. Claude Code burns through usage limits! But most of us live in the web app… distant from the terminal app, around which the buzz is about. Maybe that was enough to make you curious. Maybe you already knew exactly what it was and just want it running on your […] The po...

Claude can write an ad or email from a prompt. This is usually done manually. Useful, but hardly a coherent system. The work still needs research, positioning, channel planning, quality checks, and reporting. Claude’s marketing skills add to those missing processes. However, search results mix dedic...

The real skill isn’t getting AI to answers! But to do so in a manner that fits our budgets and fulfils our requirements. It’s guiding it with clear context and turning its output into useful action. This list is built around a simpler idea. Instead of searching through thousands of skills, you start...

I used to think Claude Code best practices were a matter of taste. Plan mode or not. Long CLAUDE.md or short. Pick what suits you, move on. Then Anthropic scored roughly 400k sessions from over 235k users against hard evidence of success. Tests passing, commits landing, users confirming they got wha...

One of your colleagues asserts that “we require improved loop engineering,” yet the fundamental issue lies within the harness itself. Others may create graphs with 40 nodes before they observe how the agent executes a given task at a single time. Does this sound like something you have encountered b...

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 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...

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...