LLM & AI Agent Applications with LangChain and LangGraph — Part 20: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Author(s): Michalzarnecki Originally published on Towards AI. Hi! Welcome to next part of series related to LLM-based applications developments dedicated to Retrieval-Augmented Generation, or simply RAG. RAG is a pattern that very quickly became the foundation of many LLM-based applications. Why? Because …
How to Scale Your LLM Usage
Author(s): Eivind Kjosbakken Originally published on Towards AI. Learn how to increase LLM usage to achieve increased productivity The word scaling has perhaps been the most important word when it comes to Large Language Models (LLMs), with the release of ChatGPT. ChatGPT …
The AI Cost-Cutting Fallacy: Why “Doing More with Less” is Breaking Engineering Teams
Author(s): Vitalii Oborskyi Originally published on Towards AI. The Efficiency Illusion In late 2024 and throughout 2025, a dangerous narrative took hold in boardrooms across the tech industry. The logic seemed seductive in its simplicity: if AI tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, …
Evolution of Vision Language Models and Multi-Modal Learning
Author(s): Bibek Poudel Originally published on Towards AI. References Exploring the Frontier of Vision-Language Models: A Survey of Current Methodologies and Future Directions Visual Instruction Tuning Qwen2-VL Technical Report Vision Language Models The advent of large language models has profoundly changed the …
I Used Global Variables for “Convenience” (And Created Bugs I Couldn’t Reproduce)
Author(s): Dua Asif Originally published on Towards AI. AI GENERATED # config.pyDATABASE_URL = "postgresql://localhost/mydb"API_KEY = "sk_live_abc123"DEBUG = True# app.pyimport configdef connect_database(): return psycopg2.connect(config.DATABASE_URL)def call_api(endpoint): return requests.get(f"https://api.example.com/{endpoint}", headers={'X-API-Key': config.API_KEY}) Clean. Simple. Every module could access configuration through import config. No passing parameters everywhere. …
Stop Staring at the Cursor: How to Build a “Video-First” Content Pipeline with Make and Notion
Author(s): Anna Jey Originally published on Towards AI. “Video-First” Content Pipeline A pragmatic guide to turning your raw video rants into polished SEO articles without writing a single word from scratch. We have all been there. It is 9:00 AM. You have …
How to Think Like a Prompt Engineer (Not Just Write Better Prompts) | M007
Author(s): Mehul Ligade Originally published on Towards AI. How to Think Like a Prompt Engineer (Not Just Write Better Prompts) | M007 📍 Abstract Most prompt engineering content teaches you tactics. “Be specific.” “Add examples.” “Use chain of thought.” These work for …
Introducing Aiclient-LLM: One Python Client for All Your LLMs
Author(s): Avdhesh Singh Chouhan Originally published on Towards AI. The unified, minimal, and production-ready Python SDK for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, xAI, and local LLMs — with built-in agents, resilience, and observability. aiclient banner Have you ever found yourself juggling multiple SDKs …
TOON vs. JSON: Deconstructing the Token Economy of Data Serialization in Large Language Model Architectures
Author(s): Shashwata Bhattacharjee Originally published on Towards AI. A critical analysis of format optimization for LLM-native data exchange, examining tokenization efficiency, semantic parsing overhead, and the architectural implications of schema-first design patterns The Tokenization Tax: Understanding JSON’s Computational Burden in Modern AI …
If AI is Centralized Today, It Is Not A Law of Nature
Author(s): Jan Olsen Originally published on Towards AI. How the evolution of computing hardware is reopening the path toward decentralized intelligence — and why we must organize now Muir Woods National Monument is part of California’s Golden Gate National Recreation Area, north …
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