Harnesses: Eager vs. Just-in-Time
Author(s): Jordan Carson Originally published on Towards AI. Harnesses: Eager vs. Just-in-Time Read the article for free here. Created using matplotlib, more on this later. I’ve been building my own coding harness, and the thing I kept obsessing over was the first …
I Replaced One $15-Per-Million-Token Frontier Model With Five Cheap Ones Arguing With Each Other. It Won.
Author(s): Adi Insights and Innovations Originally published on Towards AI. The biggest quiet trend in AI right now isn’t a bigger model. It’s five small ones voting on the answer instead — and it’s already outperforming solo frontier calls in production. Here’s …
OpenSearch Optimizations for Production RAG, Part 2: Lexical Retrieval
Author(s): Srini Dwarakanathan Originally published on Towards AI. OpenSearch Optimizations for Production RAG, Part 2: Lexical Retrieval This is Part 2 of a series on optimizing OpenSearch for production RAG. Part 1 covered semantic retrieval, meaning vector search with Approximate and exact …
#3 Claude Loops: Design the Tool Loop
Author(s): Sage Holloway 🍓 Originally published on Towards AI. #3 Claude Loops: Design the Tool Loop How to expose the right tools, hide the dangerous ones, and use permissions so Claude Code can act without wandering. Claude Loops: Design the Tool Loop …
Why AI-Built Apps Pass Every Test and Still Break in Front of Users
Author(s): Mikhail Shytsko Originally published on Towards AI. Why AI-Built Apps Pass Every Test and Still Break in Front of Users Your coding agent builds the whole app and gets the suite passing in an afternoon. But those tests ran against a …
I Replaced My $400/Month Claude API Bill With GLM-5.2 + vLLM Here’s the Exact Playbook
Author(s): allglenn Originally published on Towards AI. GLM-5.2 + vLLM Here’s the Exact Playbook Last month, three separate engineers on my team opened Slack at 6 AM asking the same question: why did our AI spend spike from $290 to $440 in …
How to Use Claude Code with Kimi K3 (and Switch Models by Typing One Word)
Author(s): allglenn Originally published on Towards AI. How to Use Claude Code with Kimi K3 (and Switch Models by Typing One Word) A verified, step-by-step guide to running Claude Code against Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 using Anthropic-compatible environment variables, plus how to …
Google Just Published the Blueprint. And aiHelpDesk Is Already Shipping it.
Author(s): Boris Dali Originally published on Towards AI. Google’s SRE team published an essay this week on integrating AI into production operations. It is worth reading in full. It is also, for anyone who has been following aiHelpDesk, striking for a different …
What I Learned Shipping AI Into a Real Financial Workflow
Author(s): TANVEER MUSTAFA Originally published on Towards AI. A behind-the-scenes look at taking generative AI from prototype to production in a regulated, high-stakes environment. A few months ago, I got to lead the technical work behind bringing generative AI into a live …
The AI Stopped Hackers. It Couldn’t Handle O’Brien.
Author(s): Shoaib Ahmed Quraishi Originally published on Towards AI. The AI Stopped Hackers. It Couldn’t Handle O’Brien. An AI system correctly blocked a deliberate SQL injection attack — and then broke on someone named O’Brien. After running a local LLM evaluation suite …
Understanding AI Agents: What Actually Works When Building AI Products
Author(s): Roshan Patil Originally published on Towards AI. Understanding AI Agents: What Actually Works When Building AI Products You’ve heard the terms AI agents, RAG, evals, multi-agents. Maybe you’ve used ChatGPT or Claude and wondered how you’d build something like that yourself. …
Kimi K3 Proved That China Caught Up, Its Fable 5 and 5.6 Sol’s Direct Competition Now
Author(s): Caspar Bannink – AI Engineer Originally published on Towards AI. Kimi K3 Proved That China Caught Up, Its Fable 5 and 5.6 Sol’s Direct Competition Now China has caught up on intelligence. Kimi K3 is the clearest release-day evidence I have …
AI Pentesting Finds More Bugs in OSS Projects
Author(s): Sonali Sood Originally published on Towards AI. AI Pentesting Finds More Bugs in OSS Projects Open-source projects like curl and FFmpeg have survived decades of human audits and millions of automated scans, yet AI pentest automation keeps finding critical vulnerabilities that …
How Claude Runs Your Digital Marketing Agency While You Sleep
Author(s): Faheem Munshi Originally published on Towards AI. How Claude Runs Your Digital Marketing Agency While You Sleep Why Digital Marketing Is the Ideal AI-Powered Business Digital marketing agencies sell something uniquely suited to AI leverage: words, ideas, and strategy — packaged …
Build an AI Agent Expense Tracker with Streamlit, FastAPI, Function Calling & Google Sheets
Author(s): A.Venkatesh Originally published on Towards AI. Introduction Most expense tracker applications require users to manually fill out forms: ExampleThe article then walks through building a production-ready AI Expense Tracker that accepts natural-language requests and uses an AI agent to orchestrate CRUD …