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A hybrid LLM application pattern that combines a predefined workflow with adaptive agent behavior
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How a seemingly harmless move to a multi-agent architecture quietly tripled our LLM costs and what actually fixed it.
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Using a Transformer Model: From Training to Inference
This chapter is divided into four parts; they are: • Autoregressive Generation • Prefill and Decode • A Simple KV Cache • Memory Usage of the KV Cache A decoder-only transformer model predicts the next token from the tokens that came before it.
Building a voice-controlled AI agents isn't hard, this article breaks the pipeline into its real components: streaming speech recognition, turn detection, streaming generation, interruption handling, and tool calling under voice constraints and shows what each one is responsible for.
July 2026 AI Releases: A Timeline of Frontier Model Shifts
July 2026 was the busiest month for frontier model releases the field has seen. Four major labs shipped flagship or near-flagship models, two well funded newcomers shipped their first, and the largest open weight model ever published went up for download, all inside thirty one days. Read as a list, ...
Claude Code CLI Commands I Wish I Had Known Sooner
I used Claude Code daily for months before realizing that claude --help hides many of its most useful capabilities. I kept restarting fresh sessions, repeatedly explaining the same project structure, simply because I did not know a better workflow existed. While debugging an unrelated issue, I disco...
In this article, you will learn the seven architectural components that separate a production-grade agentic AI system from a demo script, and how each one...
Discover 7 essential machine learning algorithms that every data scientist should know before reaching for LLMs and generative AI, with simple explanations and practical Python code.
Prompt Engineering Is Solved—Prompt Management Isn’t
Prompt engineering helps you write better prompts—but it doesn’t help you change them safely. This article explores a common production failure where a simple variable rename breaks every live call, and introduces a lightweight static analysis tool that treats prompts like contracts, catching breaki...
What Professionals Should Know About Data Science and AI, According to Harvard Business School Online
Learn why clear business goals, data quality, simple models, careful validation, realistic costs, and human judgment matter more than chasing the latest technology.
Los Movimientos, Part II: Solving Large Pickup-and-Delivery Problems with Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search
Building an ALNS heuristic in Python for vehicle routing, time windows, capacity constraints, and mandatory driver breaks.
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Avoiding Entity Key Drift in a Data Lake: Step 1, Normalization
This is the opening piece of a four-part deep dive series, on building a high-frequency streaming pipeline against a live public API. The data source is openSenseMap, a citizen-science IoT network used for climate research, mostly in Germany. A live public API is what makes it useful: it produces da...
How Much Does a Local LLM Actually Cost to Run? I Measured Every Watt on Apple Silicon
Five models, sustained generation, real wall-socket energy at $0.31/kWh — and the surprise the RTX-3090 numbers predicted, only bigger.
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MCP Explained: How Modern AI Agents Connect to the Real World
from custom integrations to a universal standard for tool access
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Graph Engineering for AI Agents: Beyond the Single-Agent Loop
AI-agent development has progressed through overlapping phases: prompt engineering, context engineering, tool use, autonomous loops, memory systems, and multi-agent coordination. A newer focus is graph engineering, which treats AI applications as explicitly designed workflows rather than a single au...
Claude Opus 5: Near-Frontier Intelligence, On a Dial
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5. The fourth model in two months, if you are keeping count. Most people are not. This one matters more than the count suggests. Opus is the workhorse tier, the model that does the actual paid work, and it just got a step change rather than a bump. Anthropic’s own ...
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The Fluid Simulator That Doesn’t Solve the Fluid Equations
I generated a Kármán vortex street without solving a single fluid equation. Here's how the Lattice Boltzmann Method gets there instead, derived from first principles, implemented in C++, and run on a supercomputer.
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