While generative AI has shown promising results in advancing software engineering, its inclusion within end-user applications is a different story. Features labeled as AI continue to pop up across every UI, but they’re not always helpful or useful. Often driven by hype, they can become a distraction, or worse, a productivity killer. “Many fall into…
Three key advantages of SLMs Division of labor: Modern AI architecture uses routers to send routine tasks to 7B-parameter SLMs, reserving trillion-parameter LLMs only for complex reasoning. Economic efficiency: For high-volume, repetitive tasks, SLMs can reduce cloud inference costs by up to 90% while providing near-instant latency. Privacy at the edge: Because SLMs can run…
Google’s Gemma 4 comes touted as the latest evolution of Google’s multi-modal model offerings. Gemma 4 not only offers reasoning and tool use, but vision and audio functionality, and it’s available in a range of model sizes that target servers and local devices. What’s striking about Gemma 4 is that even at the higher end…
Car buyers kick tires. Horse traders inspect the teeth. What should shoppers for large language models (LLMs) do? Here are 27 prescient questions that developers are asking before they adopt a particular model. Model capabilities are diverse, and not every application requires the same support. These questions will help you identify the best models for…
The AI agent market is projected to grow from $5.1 billion in 2024 to over $47 billion by 2030, yet Gartner predicts that more than 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027. The reason is not model capability. It is trust. Traditional AI evaluation tells you whether a model…
Everyone is building “agents,” but there is a large disagreement on what that means. David Loker, VP of AI at CodeRabbit, which runs one of the most widely deployed agentic code review systems in production, has a practical definition that cuts through the hype: The company’s code review “happens in a workflow” with “two agentic…
Databricks has acquired Quotient AI, a provider of AI agent evaluation and training software, to help enterprises scale AI agents in production more reliably. “Quotient AI was built to close the gap in agent evaluation and continual learning,” the company said in a statement, adding that the startup’s technology, infused inside its Genie and Agent…
I’ve asked GPT-5.2, GPT-5.3, Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, and other large language models (LLMs) to help me construct a nuclear weapon. All of them said no. Let’s be clear, my lack of knowledge is not the real barrier to constructing one. The knowledge is public, free, and well-documented. You can read The Manhattan Project’s declassified…
Google has released a preview of Gemini 3.1 Pro, described as a smarter model for the most complex problem-solving tasks and a step forward in core reasoning. Announced February 19, Gemini 3.1 Pro is designed for tasks where a simple answer is not enough, taking advanced reasoning and making it useful for the hardest challenges, according…
In the immortal words of Ferris Bueller, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” This could also be said of the world of AI. No, it could really be said about the world of AI. Things are moving at the speed of a stock tip…
