JSON Tool Calling Is Dead. Here’s What Replaces It
Author(s): MKWriteshere Originally published on Towards AI. Anthropic just made code-based tool orchestration the default path forward. Hugging Face saw this coming in December 2024. Here’s a pattern you’ll notice if you watch the AI industry closely enough: the open-source community figures …
You probably don’t need a Vector Database (Yet) for your RAG
Author(s): Thomas Reid Originally published on Towards AI. Numpy and/or SciKit-Learn might meet all your retrieval needs Right now, off the back of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), vector databases are getting a lot of attention in the AI world. Image by Nano …
OpenClaw Architecture Deep Dive: Building Production-Ready AI Agents from Scratch
Author(s): Know-Island Originally published on Towards AI. Dissecting the agent framework that hit 100K GitHub stars in a week — and had 400+ malicious plugins. Architecture patterns for building agents that actually work. OpenClaw went from zero to 100,000 GitHub stars in …
Top 20 Anomaly Detection Interview Questions and Answers (Part 2 of 2)
Author(s): Shahidullah Kawsar Originally published on Towards AI. Machine Learning Interview Preparation Part 27 Anomaly detection is the practice of identifying patterns in data that deviate from expected behavior. In an era where systems generate massive volumes of real-time data, detecting anomalies …
How I Used Sarvam AI’s Free API to Clone My Friend
Author(s): Shashwat Originally published on Towards AI. Why spend $20 on OpenAI when you can build a hyper-local, Hinglish-speaking roast bot for ₹0 using India’s newest LLM? This morning, I was staring at a Kubernetes deployment where the helm kept reconciling (brb, …
The 6 Essential Prompt Engineering Techniques: How to Get 10× Better Results from the Same LLM
Author(s): TANVEER MUSTAFA Originally published on Towards AI. Understanding Zero-Shot, Few-Shot, Chain-of-Thought, Self-Consistency, Tree of Thoughts, and ReAct You ask an LLM to analyze market trends. It gives a vague, generic response. Your colleague asks the same model with a different prompt …
The 4 AI Safety Alignment Approaches: How to Build AI That Won’t Lie, Harm, or Manipulate
Author(s): TANVEER MUSTAFA Originally published on Towards AI. Understanding RLHF, Constitutional AI, Red Teaming, and Value Learning You ask ChatGPT how to make a bomb. It refuses. You ask it to write a racist joke. It declines. You try jailbreaking it with …
Context Engineering: The 6 Techniques That Actually Matter in 2026 ( A Comprehensive Guide )
Author(s): Divy Yadav Originally published on Towards AI. Prompt engineering is dead. Context engineering is how production systems work now. Your RAG system returns perfect chunks. Your prompt is beautifully crafted But The LLM still hallucinates. Photo by AuthorThe article discusses the …
Enterprise AI Automation: A Practical Guide for Large Organizations
Author(s): Satha Originally published on Towards AI. Key Takeaways – Enterprise AI automation is a coordinated system (RPA + ML/LLMs + agents) that manages complex, end-to-end processes, not a single tool but an operating model. – Three layers define the stack traditional …
AI Transforms Data Quality Engineering for Modern Enterprise
Author(s): Valentin Podkamennyi Originally published on Towards AI. Explore how AI-augmented data quality engineering is revolutionizing enterprise data platforms by shifting from rule-based to self-learning systems. Modern enterprise data platforms are characterized by their petabyte scale, the ingestion of fully unstructured data …
LAI #115: The Hidden Cost of “Agent-First” Thinking
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! AI is getting embedded into real workflows: repos, data platforms, enterprise search, and production infrastructure. And as that happens, a pattern is showing up everywhere: the biggest failures …
Why AI in CRM Fails Without a Warehouse-First Architecture
Author(s): Clarencer R. Mercer Originally published on Towards AI. When Model Accuracy Is Not Enough In Part 1 of this series, we explored how a warehouse-first composable CDP restores architectural control to modern CRM systems. In Part 2, we examined the Identity …
Google’s Gemini Finally Learns to Sing with Lyria 3
Author(s): Mandar Karhade, MD. PhD. Originally published on Towards AI. DeepMind Lyrica 3 + Gemini = bringing high-fidelity audio generation to the masses; Queue the ethical questions. Google has officially integrated its Lyria 3 model into the Gemini app. Another day another …
I Built a Full-Stack SaaS Using Only AI — Here’s What Actually Worked (And What Didn’t)
Author(s): Anand Panchal Originally published on Towards AI. A 30-day experiment with GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code Well, not literally — but I challenged myself to build a complete full-stack application using only AI coding assistants: GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude …
101 ML/LLM/Agentic AIOPS Interview Questions.
Author(s): Niraj Kumar Originally published on Towards AI. Image by Author Section 1: Technical & Hands-On (ML/AI & MLOps) These questions test your foundational knowledge of MLOps, regardless of the cloud platform. 1. Describe the most complex ML project you’ve taken from …