CLI vs MCP: I Ran the Same Task Through Both. One Used 250 Tokens. The Other Used Over 2,000.
Author(s): Veera RS Originally published on Towards AI. CLI vs MCP: I Ran the Same Task Through Both. One Used 250 Tokens. The Other Used Over 2,000. CLI Vs MCP (Source: AI-Generated Image) CLI and MCP are two different doors that connect …
Over-the-Air Cognitive Override: Exploiting Multimodal VLMs via Physical Prompt Injection
Author(s): Jose Baena Cobos Originally published on Towards AI. Over-the-Air Cognitive Override: Exploiting Multimodal VLMs via Physical Prompt Injection Source: Holloman Air Force Base, licensed under public domain In my previous deep dives into AI supply chain integrity, I argued a frustrating …
I Self-Hosted Langfuse so My LLM Traces Would Stop Living On Someone Else’s Bill
Author(s): allglenn Originally published on Towards AI. I Self-Hosted Langfuse so My LLM Traces Would Stop Living On Someone Else’s Bill We crossed 100K traces a month in March. That’s the point where Langfuse Cloud’s Pro tier stops feeling like a rounding …
Kimi K3 Is the Biggest Open Source Model Ever. Almost No One Can Run It.
Author(s): Anubhav Originally published on Towards AI. 2.8 trillion parameters is about 1.4TB of weights. Your GPU has 24GBs. Days after shipping the largest open model ever built, Moonshot paused new subscriptions. Not a billing glitch, a GPU crunch, it could not …
Opus 5 Was Just Released And Its …
Author(s): Caspar Bannink – AI Engineer Originally published on Towards AI. Opus 5 Was Just Released And Its … Impressive, it is very impressive and the ‘comeback’ Anthropic needed. However, when I am choosing a model for a coding, the cheap-looking winner …
LLM Observability Tools Compared: MLflow vs. Langfuse vs. Confident AI
Author(s): allglenn Originally published on Towards AI. The 2 a.m. page that tracing can’t explain A support bot answers a billing question with total confidence and gets the refund policy wrong. Nobody notices for three days because the response looked fine: grammatically …
10 Markets to Target for Your Next $10K MRR App
Author(s): Caspar Bannink – AI Engineer Originally published on Towards AI. Your next app does not need millions of users to reach $10K MRR. Your next app does not need millions of users to reach $10K MRR. It needs a painful recurring …
5 Reasons Why RAG Fails in Production.
Author(s): Souvik Sarkar Originally published on Towards AI. And how OKF fixes that. Most teams building AI-powered products in 2026 are running some version of RAG, short for Retrieval-Augmented Generation. The pattern is familiar: take a user question, search a vector database …
Context Rot Is 2026’s Most Important AI Discovery — Here’s Why.
Author(s): Rubab Ashfaq Originally published on Towards AI. Inside “context rot” — the 2026 discovery that’s forcing every serious AI team to rethink how they feed information to their models For the last three years, the AI industry ran on one assumption: …
Open Weights Are Good Enough. The Hard Part Is Everything After.
Author(s): Rajasekar Venkatesan Originally published on Towards AI. Open Weights Are Good Enough. The Hard Part Is Everything After. They now match commercial models on most enterprise work at a fraction of the cost. The differentiating skill is no longer picking a …
Before Kimi K3 Goes Open: 8 Secrets Every Developer Needs to Know
Author(s): allglenn Originally published on Towards AI. 1. What You’re Actually Deploying: 2.8T MoE With KDA and Two Attention Code Paths This guide covers eight concrete things you need to understand before you touch the download button: architecture, VRAM math, tooling dependencies, …
Stop Building Toy Chatbots: The 5 AI Engineering Projects That Will Get You Hired
Author(s): Ananya Kaul Originally published on Towards AI. Here are 5 production-grade architectures that prove you actually know how to build real AI systems. If you put a basic “PDF Chatbot with LangChain and Streamlit” on your resume today, most engineering managers …
The Missing Layer: Why Enterprise AI Needs Agentic Memory Engineering
Author(s): saisubrahmanyam janapati Originally published on Towards AI. The Missing Layer: Why Enterprise AI Needs Agentic Memory Engineering A few months ago, two of us on the same team built two agents to do the same job: classify a requirement as a …
How GenAI works — Through the Eyes of an Engineer |Practical Pocket Guide
Author(s): Stylianos Chiotis Originally published on Towards AI. If you’re not a Medium member and would like to enjoy this article without restrictions, feel free to use the friend link here. Happy reading! This is how an LLM actually works — end …
LoRA, Explained With Spreadsheets: How to Train a Model Without Touching Its Weights
Author(s): Neha Khan • AI & Software Engineer Originally published on Towards AI. LoRA, Explained With Spreadsheets: How to Train a Model Without Touching Its Weights Week 3, Day 2 of my AI engineering journey — training a model on a 6GB …
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