How to pass the AI-900 Azure AI Fundamentals in one day
Author(s): Laura Verghote Originally published on Towards AI. A practical step-by-step guide with study tips, resources, and exam insights that actually work Passing the AI 900 Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals exam in a single day might sound bold, but if you already …
How to Build Your Own Relocation Navigator Agent for Tax, Social Security, and Other Admin Tasks With the Google ADK
Author(s): Laura Verghote Originally published on Towards AI. A relocation agent for cross-border tax, social security & admin navigation Having relocated myself internationally (twice), I’ve experienced firsthand how stressful, fragmented, and confusing cross-border moves can be. Even when you believe you’re well-prepared, …
What I Learned from Google’s 5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course (Day 1): Building and Orchestrating Multi-Agent Systems with ADK
Author(s): Laura Verghote Originally published on Towards AI. Building reasoning agents with the Agent Development Kit (ADK), orchestrating the Think–Act–Observe loop, and exploring real multi-agent design patterns with Gemini. This week I am participating in Google’s 5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course. This …
Choosing the right GenAI customization strategy: Balancing cost, control, and performance
Author(s): Laura Verghote Originally published on Towards AI. A practical framework to choose between RAG, fine-tuning, continued pre-training, and training from scratch — through the lens of balancing cost, control, performance and compliance. As Generative AI systems move from prototypes to production, …
From raw text to training gold: How to collect and prepare data for custom LLMs
Author(s): Laura Verghote Originally published on Towards AI. Practical guidance for building clean, domain-relevant datasets for fine-tuning, continued pretraining, or training from scratch If you’ve worked on language models beyond a quick prototype, you already know where the real bottleneck is. It’s …