The 3 Files That Make Claude Code Much Smarter
Author(s): Codebook Fusion Originally published on Towards AI. Learn the three files that make Claude Code smarter: CLAUDE.md, settings.json and SKILL.md. Real examples, setup steps, and honest tradeoffs. For my first few weeks with Claude Code, I did something embarrassing. I typed …
System 1 (Jev) Models: Faster and Cheaper Proxy to Frontier Models — With a Working Router
Author(s): Muhammad Soliman Originally published on Towards AI. Jev, Laya, Kev and Nimble in one place — plus a short, open proof of concept that puts one in front of a LiteLLM proxy and picks the model for every request. Ask your …
The Number That Matters in Cloudflare’s Clef System-One Model Isn’t 38.8 ms — Jev and Laya compared
Author(s): Muhammad Soliman Originally published on Towards AI. The Number That Matters in Cloudflare’s Clef System-One Model Isn’t 38.8 ms — Jev and Laya compared Cloudflare just open-sourced Clef and Clef-flash, two “System One” decision models built on Qwen. The headline is …
What Constrained Decoding Does That Prompting Never Can
Author(s): “The AI Engineer” Originally published on Towards AI. Subtitle You asked the model for JSON. You wrote “return valid JSON only” in capital letters. You added an example. You added a second example. For 99 calls out of 100, it worked. …
Why Is Microsoft Foundry’s Content Filter Blocking Legitimate Medical Questions?
Author(s): Dave R | Microsoft Azure & AI MVP ☁️ Originally published on Towards AI. An AB-100 case study: read the guardrail annotation, find the category and severity, and relax one threshold while Self-harm stays strict. An oncologist asks a clinical notes …
Production RBAC, Cost Optimization, and Deployment Patterns for Cortex Agents
Author(s): Satish Kumar Originally published on Towards AI. The developer-to-production pipeline for Snowflake’s Cortex Agent GA enhancements — Personal Database sandboxes, temporary agents, COPY GRANTS, and the cost math on Cortex Search suspension. Part 2 of 2 — Part 1: Your Cortex …
Coding an Agent: Steering a Local Model
Author(s): Enzo Lombardi Originally published on Towards AI. Directional Edits in DS4, or why a slider can do what a fork of the weights cannot Most of what you change about a language model’s behaviour you change from the outside. You write …
Machine Learning Basics 5 Things I Wish I Knew First
Author(s): Programming India Originally published on Towards AI. Five simple ideas that make ML tutorials, code and errors finally make sense The first time my model scored 98% accuracy, I took a screenshot. I felt like a genius for about ten minutes. …
The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Explained Like a Friend Would
Author(s): Kamrun Nahar Originally published on Towards AI. See why the area grows at the curve’s height, why plus C cancels, and where it finally breaks. Next time you’re in a car, look at the dashboard. There are two numbers there that …
Deepseek-V3: Multi-Token Prediction — Part 3
Author(s): Prachi rise Originally published on Towards AI. Deepseek-V3: Multi-Token Prediction — Part 3 This is the full series of Deepseek-V3 technical report, where i explain all the technical details in simpler words with code implementation and explanation. Deepseek-v3 MTP(Multi-token prediction)The article …
Minting an Entra Agent Token From GitHub Actions: No Secret, No Certificate, Nothing Stored
Author(s): suman saha Originally published on Towards AI. Minting an Entra Agent Token From GitHub Actions: No Secret, No Certificate, Nothing Stored Third in a series on Entra Agent ID. The first part covered the two-leg exchange and where the client assertion …
The Fix Was Already Shipped: Lessons From LiteLLM’s 2026
Author(s): Nick Hystax Originally published on Towards AI. The Fix Was Already Shipped: Lessons From LiteLLM’s 2026 Data: LiteLLM advisories, GitHub Advisory Database, Sysdig, CISA KEV catalog In late August, Microsoft’s security researchers published a detailed account of an intrusion into a …
Why Use Python If AI Writes Your Code? (2026 Guide)
Author(s): NextGen AI Originally published on Towards AI. Why Use Python If AI Writes Your Code? (2026 Guide) For years, I picked Python for every new project without thinking about it. The ecosystem was huge, hiring was easy, and I could show …
Using Claude Code: Spending your effort
Author(s): Kushal Banda Originally published on Towards AI. Using Claude Code: Spending your effort One of the best parts of our newest Claude models is how they respond to effort without breaking the prompt cache in Claude Code, but I’ve received a …
GitHub Copilot Dynamic Workflows: Build Incident Response Agents You Can Debug
Author(s): Ethan Mark Originally published on Towards AI. GitHub Copilot Dynamic Workflows: Build Incident Response Agents You Can Debug A practical implementation guide for turning one frantic, open-ended incident prompt into a bounded investigation your team can inspect, pause, and trust. More …
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