I Replaced ChatGPT With Local AI for 30 Days. Here’s What Actually Happened.
Author(s): MayhemCode Originally published on Towards AI. Why Local AI Is Not a Fringe Thing Anymore My ChatGPT Plus subscription was costing me $20 a month. That’s $240 a year. For someone who uses AI every single day for drafting, coding help, …
Building Long-Running Claude Managed Agents: Why State Matters More Than Compute
Author(s): Divy Yadav Originally published on Towards AI. Photo from AI At 9:03 am on a Tuesday, my research agent said hello and stared at an empty /workspace/. Six hours of analysis from the night before. Gone. The cloned repository. The installed …
Choose Wisely: Models Should Follow Your Use Case.
Author(s): Dhanush Kandhan Originally published on Towards AI. Choose Wisely: Models Should Follow Your Use Case. — By Dhanush Kandhan A guy in my builder’s discord group blew his entire Codex subscription in eleven days. Two weeks into the month, nothing left. …
Understanding Reinforcement Learning — A Primer
Author(s): Ayo Akinkugbe Originally published on Towards AI. Understanding Reinforcement Learning — A Primer Photo by Girl with red hat on Unsplash Introduction: Learning by Trial and Error Imagine teaching a dog to fetch a ball. You don’t hand the dog a …
AI Security for AI Engineers: What Actually Breaks in Production?
Author(s): Andrii Tkachuk Originally published on Towards AI. AI Security for AI Engineers: What Actually Breaks in Production? You’ve shipped an LLM-powered feature. Your RAG pipeline retrieves context, your agent calls a few tools, users are happy. But has anyone on your …
Harness Engineering Explained: The One Layer Behind Every AI Agent That Actually Works
Author(s): Divy Yadav Originally published on Towards AI. Most AI agents are built with the smart part but not the safe part. Here is what the missing layer is, why it exists, and what breaks without it. A company built an AI …
Stop Building AI Apps for Every Idea. Start Building MCP Servers — Part #5
Author(s): Andrii Tkachuk Originally published on Towards AI. Stop Building AI Apps for Every Idea. Start Building MCP Servers — Part #5 Where does your MCP server actually live? In Part 1 I argued that the center of gravity in applied AI …
How to Securely Connect Your AI Agent to Telegram with Azure
Author(s): Javier Iniesta Originally published on Towards AI. How to Securely Connect Your AI Agent to Telegram with Azure Personal AI agents are starting to take a major leap forward. Projects like OpenClaw show that we are no longer talking only about …
How to Run DeepSeek Locally on Your Own Computer, and the Catch Most Guides Skip
Author(s): Yashraj Behera Originally published on Towards AI. How to Run DeepSeek Locally on Your Own Computer, and the Catch Most Guides Skip DeepSeek became famous overnight as the open model that matched the best reasoning systems for a fraction of the …
5 Prompts That Get Dramatically Better Answers Out of Claude
Author(s): Yashraj Behera Originally published on Towards AI. 5 Prompts That Get Dramatically Better Answers Out of Claude Most people use Claude like a search box, ask a question, take the first answer, move on. The people getting genuinely useful work out …
Context Rot: Why Longer Windows Are Making Your AI Dumber, Not Smarter
Author(s): “The AI Engineer” Originally published on Towards AI. Context Rot: Why Longer Windows Are Making Your AI Dumber, Not Smarter The promise that didn’t quite deliver Two years ago, a 200,000-token context window felt like magic. Today it’s table stakes — …
AI for Sales & Persuasion — Prompt to Profit · Day 21 of 30
Author(s): Faheem Munshi Originally published on Towards AI. AI for Sales & Persuasion — Prompt to Profit · Day 21 of 30 The frameworks that turn words into revenue — and how to deploy them at scale. Persuasion is the oldest business …
Tool Calling Is Not an API Call: What Engineers Keep Getting Wrong
Author(s): Siddardha Vangala Originally published on Towards AI. Tool Calling Is Not an API Call: What Engineers Keep Getting Wrong Every team that builds an LLM agent eventually hits the same wall. The model calls a tool. Something breaks. Nobody knows why. …
Claude Code Is Quietly Killing Junior Developers
Author(s): MayhemCode Originally published on Towards AI. Claude Code Is Quietly Killing Junior Developers Last year, a mid-sized SaaS company in Austin cut its junior engineering headcount by 40 percent. No press release. No layoff tracker story. The engineers just weren’t re-hired …
I Tried 100+ Claude Skills. These 6 Actually Changed How I Work.
Author(s): Divy Yadav Originally published on Towards AI. After testing more than 100 Claude Code skills, only six became part of my daily workflow. Here is what each one does. I built more than 100 Claude Code skills. Photo from AIThe author …
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