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Six Ways to Tame the Beast: Mitigating Context Failures in LLMs

2025-08-24

Large language models (LLMs) boast ever-increasing context windows, but excessive context can hinder performance. This article details six mitigation strategies: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for selective information addition; Tool Loadout for choosing relevant tools; Context Quarantine for isolating contexts into separate threads; Context Pruning for removing irrelevant information; Context Summarization for condensing the context; and Context Offloading for storing information outside the LLM's context. Studies show these methods significantly improve model accuracy and efficiency, particularly when handling numerous tools or complex tasks.

(www.dbreunig.com)

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Decoding the Myriad of AI Job Titles: A Cheat Sheet

2025-08-22

Navigating the ever-evolving landscape of AI job titles can be challenging. This cheat sheet provides a framework for understanding the often-confusing terminology. By breaking down titles like "Applied AI Engineer" and "AI Forward Deployed Engineer," the author reveals common components and explains the meaning of modifiers (e.g., "Applied," "Forward Deployed") and domains (e.g., "ML," "Gen AI"). The ambiguity surrounding the "Researcher" title, differing between academia and industry, is highlighted, suggesting clearer job descriptions are needed. This guide helps decipher AI roles and offers valuable insights for career exploration.

(www.dbreunig.com)

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The Bitter Lesson: A Paradox in AI Development

2025-08-02

Rich Sutton's "bitter lesson" posits that general methods leveraging computation are ultimately the most effective. This article explores this idea's manifestation in fields like Go, chess, speech recognition, and computer vision, and its challenges in enterprise applications. While massive computation yields breakthroughs in some areas, the article highlights limitations in data quality and clearly defined objectives, arguing that efficient specialized models sometimes outperform general-purpose ones, and that computational resources aren't always the optimal solution.

(www.dbreunig.com)

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AI's MCPs: A Web 2.0 Déjà Vu?

2025-06-17

The hype around Multi-modal Connectors (MCPs) echoes the Web 2.0 story. The initial vision – LLMs seamlessly accessing all data and apps – mirrors the early promise of interconnected services. However, Web 2.0's open APIs eventually evolved into controlled systems dominated by a few winners. Similarly, while MCPs promise open access, large platforms may restrict access to prevent competition. This suggests MCPs might become controlled tools, not a truly open ecosystem.

(www.dbreunig.com)

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Anthropic's Claude 4.0 System Prompt: Refinements and Evolution

2025-06-04

Anthropic's release of Claude 4.0 reveals subtle yet significant changes to its system prompt compared to version 3.7. These modifications illuminate how Anthropic uses system prompts to define application UX and how prompts fit into their development cycle. For instance, old hotfixes are gone, replaced by new instructions such as avoiding positive adjectives at the start of responses and proactively searching when necessary, rather than seeking user permission. These shifts suggest increased confidence in their search tools and model application, plus observation of users increasingly employing Claude for search tasks. Furthermore, Claude 4.0's system prompt reflects user demand for more structured document types, addresses context limit issues by encouraging concise code, and adds safeguards against malicious code usage. In essence, the improvements in Claude 4.0's system prompt showcase Anthropic's iterative development process, optimizing chatbot behavior based on observed user behavior.

(www.dbreunig.com)

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DuckDB's Spatial Extension: Democratizing Geospatial Data

2025-05-03

What happens when you embed geospatial capabilities in generalist data tools? More people using geo data! A recent Cloud-Native Geospatial conference highlighted the need to broaden geospatial adoption. DuckDB's spatial extension dramatically lowers the barrier to entry, requiring only two lines of code to install and load. This allows casual users to easily work with geospatial data, boosting the ecosystem significantly. The success of Overture Maps Foundation may well be tied to this ease of access.

(www.dbreunig.com)

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