7 AI Agent Concepts Every AI Developer Must Master
Author(s): Divy Yadav Originally published on Towards AI. Everyone obsesses over which model to pick. The real engineering happens somewhere else entirely, and almost nobody talks about it. I watched Claude write a script, run it, hit an error, read that error, …
How to Use Claude Code for QA Automation (Skills, Playwright, and CI)
Author(s): Sage Holloway 🍓 Originally published on Towards AI. How to Use Claude Code for QA Automation (Skills, Playwright, and CI) Close the context gap: /init, skill.md, Playwright MCP vs CLI, black-box tools, and a headless GitHub Action. You pasted the same …
Data Engineering for RAG: Building Reliable AI with Better Data Pipelines
Author(s): GOWRI SHANKAR RAJU Originally published on Towards AI. Data Engineering for RAG: Building Reliable AI with Better Data Pipelines Introduction Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a practical method for connecting Large Language Models to enterprise information. Rather than relying solely on training …
I Tested 8 Best ChatGPT Alternatives So You Don’t Have To
Author(s): Elsie Rainee Originally published on Towards AI. I Tested 8 Best ChatGPT Alternatives So You Don’t Have To Elsie Rainee If you’ve been hitting ChatGPT’s usage caps, watching its output spit out the same hedged, over-structured prose for the tenth time, …
Give Your Voice Agent Hands: Tool Calling on Twilio ConversationRelay with Python
Author(s): Mostafa Ibrahim Originally published on Towards AI. Give Your Voice Agent Hands: Tool Calling on Twilio ConversationRelay with Python You’ve built a voice agent on Twilio ConversationRelay. It greets callers, understands what they say, and answers in a natural voice. Then …
How I Built a Client Invoice System with Claude Code (Opus 5) in Under 2 Hours — Full Tutorial
Author(s): Felix Kebaya Originally published on Towards AI. How I Built a Client Invoice System with Claude Code (Opus 5) in Under 2 Hours — Full Tutorial I needed an invoice system for my freelance work. I was using Google Docs templates… copying a …
Context Windows vs Tokens vs Memory: The Unified Hands-On Guide (Save 1250x on LLM Costs)
Author(s): Udaykiran Estari Originally published on Towards AI. Context Windows vs Tokens vs Memory: The Unified Hands-On Guide (Save 1250x on LLM Costs) Your LLM doesn’t have memory. Every API call starts from zero, and you’re probably overpaying 1250x by relying on …
MCP Grows Up: Six Changes Production Teams Need to Plan For
Author(s): Anu Joseph Originally published on Towards AI. MCP Grows Up: Six Changes Production Teams Need to Plan For The new Model Context Protocol specification removes protocol sessions, formalizes extensions, introduces durable asynchronous work, hardens authorization and gives implementers a real deprecation …
AI Agent Deconfliction Architecture: Keep Parallel Coding Agents From Fighting Over the Same Work
Author(s): Anna Jey Originally published on Towards AI. AI Agent Deconfliction Architecture: Keep Parallel Coding Agents From Fighting Over the Same Work AI Agent Deconfliction Architecture Parallel coding agents can feel like a superpower until two sessions edit the same file, start …
OpenCode vs Claude Code: The Complete Terminal AI Alternatives Guide (2026)
Author(s): Sage Holloway 🍓 Originally published on Towards AI. OpenCode vs Claude Code: The Complete Terminal AI Alternatives Guide (2026) Managed Claude Code vs open terminal harnesses: Tool Search, LSP loops, token economics, and when to pick OpenCode. Terminal-first AI development has …