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TL;DR: * The hard part of building reliable agentic systems is making sure the LLM has the appropriate context at each step. This includes both controlling the exact content that goes into the LLM, as well as running the appropriate steps to generate relevant content. * Agentic systems consist of both workflows and agents (and everything in between). * Most agentic frameworks are neither declarative or imperative…

Distributed systems built on object storage all have one common problem: removing files that have been logically deleted either due to data expiry or compaction. We review the pros and cons of five ways to solve this problem.

We believe microservices shouldn't be the default and that companies should start with monoliths until reality actually demands they scale and shift from one node to a …

Is it just me, or are the code generation AIs we're all using fundamentally broken? For months, I've watched developers praise AI coding tools while silently cleaning up their messes, afraid to admit how much babysitting they actually need. I realized that AI IDEs don't actually understand codebases — they're just sophisticated autocomplete tools with good marketing. The emperor has no clothes, and I'm tired of…

Ruby on Rails' famous blog in 15 minutes now runs right in your browser thanks to WebAssembly.

Project link: https://github.com/workofart/ml-by-hand I recently started working on a project called ML by Hand, which is a machine learning library that I built using just Python and NumPy. Afterwards, I trained various models (classical ones like CNN, ResNet, RNN, LSTM, and more modern architectures like Transformers and GPT) using this...

Artificial intelligence assistants like Anthropic's Claude, once viewed with skepticism, have become indispensable software development tools.

At their annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon's Web Services (AWS) exemplified this trend with a series of product and service announcements primarily focused on enhancing...

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Scientists hope to accelerate the development of human-level AI using a network of powerful supercomputers — with the first of these machines fully operational by 2025.

An MIT CSAIL paper discusses why quantum computers struggle to run quantum algorithms and outlines how their abstract machine would run quantum control flow to make the technology more easily programmable.

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A few guidelines to make Rust more fun and less frustrating.

There have been two main trends driving software development this year: artificial intelligence and low-code/no-code tooling

AMD has signed up major hardware companies to support its latest initiative to build out datacentre AI optimisation

This is the second post in a series of blog posts that look at Dagger from different perspectives. In this post we do a deep dive on how to leverage Dagger as a developer that is tasked with implementing the CI process of a Java-Gradle service. In this CI process we need to: build, run integration tests with external dependencies and package the service. We will leave the CD part for a future blog post that looks…

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InfoWorld's 2023 Bossie Awards recognize the year's leading open source tools for software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning.

The rise of "generative" artificial intelligence is all about scaling, the idea of adding more resources to a computer program to get better results. As

.NET 8 introduces debugging enhancements to many commonly used types. Check out what is new and discover how .NET debugging is better than ever.