Kimi K2.7 Code vs. GLM-5.2: which open-weight coding model to self-host on vLLM
Author(s): allglenn Originally published on Towards AI. Core concepts: what makes these models tick You’ve just finished reading the sixth “open-source model beats GPT-5.5” post this month, and you’re still no closer to an infrastructure decision. Your team needs a coding agent …
I Built a Hybrid RAG App That Talks to My PDF — and Knows When to Say “I Don’t Know”
Author(s): Pariv Shah Originally published on Towards AI. Imagine you upload an insurance policy PDF and ask: “What is my wind/hail deductible?” A good RAG system should find the exact clause and answer from it. Now ask: “What is the capital of …
AI Price War Fractures Single-Vendor Stacks. Chinese APIs Capture 46% of Traffic
Author(s): MohamedAbdelmenem Originally published on Towards AI. OpenAI dropped three models at once, xAI priced Grok 4.5 at two dollars per million tokens, and systems architects are actively building multi-model routing gateways to survive the margin squeeze without paying a forty percent …
Evolution of NLP: TF-IDF to Agents
Author(s): Zoumana Keita Originally published on Towards AI. How search progressed from exact-term matching to systems that decide how to gather evidence. A search box can create the impression that a computer understands a question. For much of the history of information …
Loop Engineering in Claude Code: Let the Agent Run Itself
Author(s): Remy B. Originally published on Towards AI. Loop Engineering in Claude Code: Let the Agent Run Itself Stop hand-prompting your coding agent. Build the loop that runs it — and close it on a check Claude can’t fake. Key Takeaways – …
Migration to Agent-First Architecture for Enhanced Security
Author(s): David Pradeep Originally published on Towards AI. Migration to Agent-First Architecture for Enhanced Security The first time I tried to migrate a legacy order-processing service to an agent-first model, the biggest surprise wasn’t the refactoring effort, it was how many hidden …
I Gave Claude a Memory That Survives Between Conversations — Here’s the MCP Server That Does It
Author(s): Sai Insights Originally published on Towards AI. I Gave Claude a Memory That Survives Between Conversations — Here’s the MCP Server That Does It A tested, running MCP server that gives any AI agent persistent long-term memory — it remembers facts …
The Hidden Cost of Letting AI Agents Write Your Tests
Author(s): Sarath S Originally published on Towards AI. I asked Claude to write tests for a payment processing module last week. It generated 47 tests in under two minutes. Every single one passed on the first run. Three days later, a customer’s …
The Semantic Layer is the Ultimate Battlefield in the Era of Agentic AI
Author(s): Vinayak Gole Originally published on Towards AI. How the shift from human dashboards to autonomous agents transformed a forgotten BI feature into the most expensive architectural war in data engineering The holy grail of enterprise data engineering has always been self-service …
Stop Prompting Claude Code, Start Engineering Loops: Master Agentic Automation
Author(s): allglenn Originally published on Towards AI. A prompt is a request. A loop is a system In early June 2026, a tweet from Peter Steinberger, the developer behind the OpenClaw framework, hit five million views in under a day. The gist …
TAI #213: A Wave of New Frontier Competitors and the Multi-Agent Breakout
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Towards AI Deployment Some company news and a quick ask before this week’s stories! Since 2019, we’ve helped developers transition into AI engineering and trained enterprises to build with AI. Over those …
How I Started to See Inside the LLM
Author(s): Alfin R. Originally published on Towards AI. How I Started to See Inside the LLM Photo by Chris Liverani on Unsplash Before we start, I’m a noob! My experience with AI has mostly been things like, “Create an itinerary for a …
How I Actually Cut My LLM Bill: As a Software Engineer’s Approach, Not a Tips List
Author(s): Ashish Nishad Originally published on Towards AI. There are a hundred “10 ways to save on tokens” articles out there. This is what I actually built, on a real internal tool, and the one change that did most of the work. …
I. The Anatomy of a Voice Agent
Author(s): Mahimai Raja J Originally published on Towards AI. Every component that builds a production ready Voice Agent Hi, This is a start of new serious after the success of FastAPI. So, I have decided to breakdown Voice AI along with Hands-on …
Turn Claude Into a Copy Machine: Building a $6K/Month Ad Copywriting Business — Solo
Author(s): Faheem Munshi Originally published on Towards AI. Every brand running ads is hemorrhaging money on bad copy. Lackluster headlines. Weak calls to action. Body copy that sells features instead of feelings. The businesses that crack this spend more — because they …