In Small-Data Medical Imaging, Variance Is the Enemy
Author(s): Bruno Caraffa Originally published on Towards AI. In Small-Data Medical Imaging, Variance Is the Enemy Photo by CDC on Unsplash Pediatric tuberculosis is one of the harder problems in clinical imaging. In children the radiological signs are subtle and non-specific, microbiological …
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 …
RAG Evaluation 101: What to Measure (and What Not to)
Author(s): Anubhav Originally published on Towards AI. Five questions, five papers, five things your RAG eval is probably getting wrong. If you have built a RAG, you have asked yourself the question: is this thing actually any good? After the lead paragraph, …
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 — …
Stop Crashing and Start Cooking with vLLM on AMD and Lemonade Server
Author(s): Cody Sandahl Originally published on Towards AI. How I Fixed vLLM on Strix Halo and Got 3x Better Batch Throughput with Qwen3.5 I used to wonder why “curiosity killed the cat,” but now I know that those curious cats probably forgot …
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 …
I Built the Same Agent in LangGraph, CrewAI, and AutoGen — Microsoft Quit the 56K-Star Favorite
Author(s): Chew Loong Nian – AI ENGINEER Originally published on Towards AI. I Built the Same Agent in LangGraph, CrewAI, and AutoGen — Microsoft Quit the 56K-Star Favorite I spent a weekend building the exact same two-agent pipeline three times — once …
Sakana Trained One AI to Command GPT-5.5, Opus, and Gemini — It Cracked 73.7 Where They Stalled at 69
Author(s): Chew Loong Nian – AI ENGINEER Originally published on Towards AI. Sakana Trained One AI to Command GPT-5.5, Opus, and Gemini — It Cracked 73.7 Where They Stalled at 69 Two days ago a Tokyo lab shipped a model that scored …
Once an AI Agent Removes Typing, Intent Becomes the Bottleneck
Author(s): Venkat Peri Originally published on Towards AI. Once an AI Agent Removes Typing, Intent Becomes the Bottleneck When a coding agent can produce a working module faster than a person can type it, the slow step becomes knowing exactly what you …
Benchmarking RAG Architectures Locally on a Real Financial PDF — Part 3: The Measurement Problem
Author(s): Ali Enver Arslan Originally published on Towards AI. Benchmarking RAG Architectures Locally on a Real Financial PDF — Part 3: The Measurement Problem Part 3 of a three-part series. Part 1 covered the setup and the text-retrieval methods; Part 2 covered …
Benchmarking RAG Architectures Locally on a Real Financial PDF — Part 2: Escaping the Text Layer
Author(s): Ali Enver Arslan Originally published on Towards AI. Benchmarking RAG Architectures Locally on a Real Financial PDF — Part 2: Escaping the Text Layer Part 2 of a three-part series. Part 1 covered the document, the extraction, the evaluation setup, and …