Running LLM Models locally with Docker
Author(s): Kushal Banda Originally published on Towards AI. If you’ve been building AI applications recently, you’re likely familiar with the friction of managing API keys, tracking usage costs, and relying on cloud endpoints like OpenAI or Anthropic. But what if you could …
GPT-5.3-Codex vs. Claude Opus 4.6: Two Titans Launched Minutes Apart
Author(s): Kushal Banda Originally published on Towards AI. GPT-5.3-Codex vs. Claude Opus 4.6: Two Titans Launched Minutes Apart On February 5, 2026, at practically the same moment, Anthropic unveiled Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex. The timing wasn’t coincidental. It was …
ClawBot’s Architecture Explained: How a Lobster Conquered 100K GitHub Stars 🦞
Author(s): Kushal Banda Originally published on Towards AI. ClawBot’s Architecture Explained: How a Lobster Conquered 100K GitHub Stars 🦞 The technical design decisions that turned a personal hobby project into 2026’s most-discussed AI agent An open-source AI agent hit 100,000 GitHub stars …
Building Self-Correcting RAG Systems
Author(s): Kushal Banda Originally published on Towards AI. Self-correcting RAG systems Standard RAG pipelines have a fatal flaw: they retrieve once and hope for the best. When the retrieved documents don’t match the user’s intent, the system generates confident nonsense. No feedback …
I Built CommitRecap so Your GitHub Year Reads Like a Story
Author(s): Kushal Banda Originally published on Towards AI. CommitRecap GitHub shows totals and a grid. You already know you wrote code this year; what you want is the story behind it. CommitRecap turns a username into a guided recap that feels personal, …
MCP Servers That Are Actually Useful
Author(s): Kushal Banda Originally published on Towards AI. Let’s explore Model Context Protocol (MCP) a powerful way to connect tools, data, and models. MCP lets you run servers that expose capabilities like search, file operations, or custom APIs, and make them instantly …
LangGraph & Redis: Build Smarter AI Agents With Memory & Persistence
Author(s): Kushal Banda Originally published on Towards AI. Redis Redis and LangGraph now work together. You can build AI agents that remember conversations across sessions using LangGraph framework paired with Redis’ persistent memory layer. Before this, agents started fresh each conversation. Now …
Agents 2.0: From Shallow Loops to Deep Agents
Author(s): Kushal Banda Originally published on Towards AI. Deep Agents For the past year, building an AI agent usually meant one thing: setting up a while loop, take a user prompt, send it to an LLM, parse a tool call, execute the …
From JSON to TOON: Evolving Serialization for LLMs
Author(s): Kushal Banda Originally published on Towards AI. TOON (Token Oriented Object Notation) When you’re scaling AI applications, token efficiency isn’t just a buzzword it’s your bottom line. Every token wasted is money left on the table and latency you didn’t ask …