Claude Code Skills vs Slash Commands vs Subagents: Where Should Each One Live?
Author(s): Sudha Subramaniam Originally published on Towards AI. Claude Code Skills vs Slash Commands vs Subagents: Where Should Each One Live? A practical way to organize Claude Code instructions, reusable workflows, and specialized agents without turning CLAUDE.md into a dumping ground The …
Why OpenAI Walked Out on Cursor and Anthropic Couldn’t
Author(s): Kashif Mehmood Originally published on Towards AI. OpenAI’s models carry 5% of Cursor’s traffic. Anthropic’s Claude runs on 220,000 of SpaceX’s GPUs. Read those two numbers before you read either company’s statement. On Friday 28 August, OpenAI published a short post …
From ChatGPT and Codex to an Agentic Terraform Platform
Author(s): Anooptej Thotapalli Originally published on Towards AI. What repeated infrastructure work taught me about deterministic discovery, probabilistic reasoning, guardrails, and keeping humans in control Infrastructure automation has traditionally been deterministic. From AI-assisted infrastructure work to a guarded agentic engineering platform.The article …
Your Sandbox Shouldn’t Keep Its Install-Time Network Access
Author(s): Divy Yadav Originally published on Towards AI. Photo from AI Your Sandbox Shouldn’t Keep Its Install-Time Network Access Give setup the access it needs, then lock the sandbox down before untrusted code runs, without restarting it. Your AI agent needed internet …
The World Is Filling Up With AI Slop. People Are Starting to Say Enough.
Author(s): Dr. Mohit singhal Originally published on Towards AI. AI can create almost anything in seconds, but a growing number of artists and businesses believe fast and cheap should never replace creativity, personality and human connection A few years back, if you …
RLHF vs RLAIF: Who Should Teach an AI What “Good” Looks Like?
Author(s): Rajendran S Originally published on Towards AI. RLHF vs RLAIF: Who Should Teach an AI What “Good” Looks Like? A large language model trained on the internet is exceptionally good at one thing: predicting the next token. Feed it “The capital …
Inside Databricks Knowledge Assistant: The Architecture Behind Smarter, Faster Enterprise Search
Author(s): Ishwarya Modika Originally published on Towards AI. Inside Databricks Knowledge Assistant: The Architecture Behind Smarter, Faster Enterprise Search Every retrieval system can find documents. Very few can follow instructions while doing it. Here’s the story of how one product learned to …
Can AI Design Quantum Algorithms Better Than Humans?
Author(s): Naveen Originally published on Towards AI. AI is now evolving beyond simple optimization to become a creative partner, automatically discovering novel and efficient quantum algorithms that could solve previously intractable problems. As quantum hardware races ahead, our ability to write algorithms …
Build a Self-Correcting AI Agent with Self-RAG & LangGraph
Author(s): Naveen Originally published on Towards AI. Move beyond basic RAG. Learn to build a dynamic, self-correcting retrieval agent using LangGraph’s state machines to grade context, reflect on answers, and eliminate hallucinations for truly reliable results. The standard approach to Retrieval-Augmented Generation …
The Rise of Sovereign AI: A New Global Arms Race for Compute
Author(s): Naveen Originally published on Towards AI. Beyond corporate clouds, nations are now racing to build their own AI infrastructure. This is not just about technology — it’s a bid for economic independence, cultural preservation, and national security in the digital age. …
GPT-5.6 Sol vs Claude Opus 5.
Author(s): inprogrammer Originally published on Towards AI. The Benchmark Gap Is 0.4 Points. Here’s What That Actually Means for Your Codebase. I saw the Terminal Bench 2.1 numbers before I saw anything else. GPT 5.6 Sol at 89.5 percent. Claude Opus 5 …
Every AI Tool Shows You Sources Now. I Checked Whether They Actually Say What the AI Claims.
Author(s): EMMANUEL NWANGUMA Originally published on Towards AI. The answer is: often not. And catching it turned out to cost nothing. You have probably seen this pattern. You ask an AI something, it gives you an answer, and underneath there’s a little …
Claude Code's Edit Format Beat omp's Default on 12 of My 15 Fumbled Edits
Author(s): Chew Loong Nian – AI ENGINEER Originally published on Towards AI. A coding agent that ships five different ways to change a file, and the one it turns on by default is the only one that put my code on the …
Learning Agentic AI: Tool Use
Author(s): Haixi Li Originally published on Towards AI. Lesson 1 When you call an LLM API normally, you send messages and get text back. With tool use, you also send a list of tool definitions — name, description, and expected inputs (as …
Learning Agentic AI: ReAct
Author(s): Haixi Li Originally published on Towards AI. Anthropic Will Lose the AI Race: here is 10 Reasons why In After the lead, the article argues—using valuation and revenue context for 2026—that Anthropic’s current momentum may not be enough to sustain an …