Winograd convolutions cost us 2 mAP and we didn't notice for a month
TL;DR: We turned on Winograd convolution to shave latency off a pedestrian detector running on a Cortex-A53, got a clean 18% speedup, and silently los…
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Retrieval‑Augmented Memory Reduces Sliding‑Window Limitations in Video Models
VideoMLA’s low‑rank latent KV cache cuts KV‑cache demand by roughly 90 % and LongLive‑RAG’s retrieval‑augmented memory helps mitigate the temporal dri…
How I Cut AI API Costs by 65% — A Freelance Dev's 2026 Guide
How I Cut AI API Costs by 65% — A Freelance Dev's 2026 Guide Three months ago I opened my monthly invoice from a client project and nearly choked on m…
Notion AI's Pricing Trap: Why I Went Open Source Instead
Notion AI's Pricing Trap: Why I Went Open Source Instead I still remember the day my colleague slid a Notion AI invoice across my desk. The number mad…
Fast Automatic ML Hyperparameter tuning Using Optuna (w. MLflow model registry and IRIS DB)
This article presents a straightforward approach to automatically and efficiently tune hyperparameters for machine learning models using Optuna as the…
How I Cut Speech-to-Text Costs by 60% Without Killing Quality
How I Cut Speech-to-Text Costs by 60% Without Killing Quality I've been running transcription pipelines in production for the better part of a decade,…
Fine-Tuning Llama 3.2 3B on Medical QA: Week 4 - When Lower Loss Meant a Worse Model
What Happened This Week Week 3 produced a working fine-tuned model: one epoch, one dataset, a clear improvement over the base model. This week 4 was s…
Karpathy's "Autoresearch" Just Went Viral — Here's How Software Engineers Can Actually Use the Pattern at Work
Forget neural networks for a second. The real idea inside this repo is a blueprint for letting AI agents run unattended overnight — and it maps onto p…
Stop Shipping ML Models With Bare Floats: A Deep Dive Into Statistically Rigorous Model Evaluation
Stop Shipping ML Models With Bare Floats Every week, somewhere, a team makes a deployment decision that looks like this: Model A: AUROC = 0.847 Model …
Building Production Multi-Agent Systems with Claude
Building Production Multi-Agent Systems with Claude Meta: Learn how to architect production-grade multi-agent systems using Claude API. Covers orchest…
How I debug RAG failures with deterministic signals
When building LLM apps, one frustrating problem is that a response can be wrong for many different reasons. The model may have hallucinated. The retri…
Power analysis for LLM evals: how big does your eval set need to be to catch a 5% regression?
TL;DR: Most eval sets are sized by "what we had lying around", not by what they can actually detect. If your eval set is 50 traces and you are trying …
Bootcamp Grad Dives Into Google vs OpenAI API Pricing
Honestly, bootcamp Grad Dives Into Google vs OpenAI API Pricing When I finished my coding bootcamp three months ago, I thought I understood what an AP…
I Tested OpenAI and Anthropic Pricing Side by Side — Here's the Truth
So here's what happened: i Tested OpenAI and Anthropic Pricing Side by Side — Here's the Truth Last month I burned through $847 on a single classifica…
NVIDIA Blackwell Leads AgentPerf, the First Agentic-AI Infra Benchmark: Trajectory-Replay Benchmarking
What: The AgentPerf benchmark from Artificial Analysis is the first test built for agentic-AI infrastructure : instead of timing one chat completion, …
Your UMAP Looks Great. But Can You Prove the Annotation Is Correct?
How I built a production scanpy pipeline that does not just annotate single-cell data -- it measures how accurately it did so, where it fails, and why…
CortexOps vs LangSmith: Which AI Agent Observability Tool Is Right for You?
If you are building LLM agents with LangGraph or LangChain and need production observability, you have probably looked at LangSmith. You may also have…
How to Fine-Tune LLMs on Your Own Data: Open-Source Models, RL Environments, and Evals
If you use LLMs long enough, you hit the same wall. The frontier model is impressive, but it is not always the best model for your job. It may be too …
After Turing- teach a machine to judge, then watch it act alone
This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam What I Built I built After Turing , a short browser game where you teach a machine when to trust, …
LifeLine Loop — AI-Powered Food Rescue Platform
Problem We Solved Every year, millions of tons of perfectly edible food are wasted across India from restaurants, weddings, hostels, corporate cafeter…
Gemini Prototyping, AI Code Migration Agents, and LLM Transparency Insights
Gemini Prototyping, AI Code Migration Agents, and LLM Transparency Insights Today's Highlights Today's highlights include Google Gemini's rapid app pr…
I built a 3B lease risk scanner that runs without an external LLM API
I built Lease Lens for the Hugging Face Build Small Hackathon . The idea is simple: most people sign contracts they do not really read. That is true f…
AI Agents Explained: The Impact of Autonomous Systems on Software Engineering
Introduction Artificial intelligence is now much more advanced than chatbots. With little assistance from humans, modern AI systems are capable of rea…
The Developer's Guide to AI Code Review Tools That Don't Lock You In
Here's the thing: the Developer's Guide to AI Code Review Tools That Don't Lock You In I used to dread code review. Not because reviewing code is bad …
NVIDIA RTX Spark Superchip: Unified CPU–GPU Memory
What: NVIDIA's RTX Spark "superchip" (unveiled around Computex / Build 2026) pairs a 20-core Grace CPU with a Blackwell RTX GPU that together address …
Running Chinese LLMs at Scale: A Cloud Architect's Notes
Running Chinese LLMs at Scale: A Cloud Architect's Notes I want to talk about something I've been wrestling with on real production workloads: the fou…
Python for Machine Learning: The Complete Roadmap Nobody Told You About
When I first started exploring Machine Learning, I made the same mistake most beginners do — I jumped straight into neural networks and model training…
Why Prompts Fail in Production (and the 4 Failure Vectors)
Originally published on AI School — free AI & ML courses, no signup. This is lesson 1 of the free course Prompt Patterns That Survive Production .…
I Cut Our Image Captioning Costs 60% — Here's the Backend Story
Check this out: i Cut Our Image Captioning Costs 60% — Here's the Backend Story Look, I'll be honest. Six months ago I didn't think twice about image …
Teach Your Agent to Forget (On Purpose)
Hello, I'm Maneshwar. I'm building git-lrc, a Micro AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. It is free and source-available on Github. Star git-lr…