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I just completed three Microsoft AI Agent modules: • Memory, State, and Evaluation • Multi-Agent Systems and Orchestration • Governance, Guardrails, and Operations One thing stood out. We've spent years talking about prompts. The real challenge is systems. 🧵
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If you missed some of the Visual Studio Copilot announcements from the Build conference, here's a short summary: devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/w…
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CodeQL 2.25.6 adds support for Swift 6.3.2, full coverage for C# 14 and.NET 10, and improves sensitive data detection across multiple languages. • Updated GitHub Actions queries to reduce false positives and reopen some alerts github.blog/changelog/2026…
Hermes Agent v0.16.0 - “The Surface Release” Changelog below:
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Prompt Engineering Master Tree PROMPT ENGINEERING — MASTER TREE 🌲 Prompt Engineering │ ├── 01. Foundations │ ├── What is a Prompt? │ ├── Tokens │ ├── Context Windows │ ├── Temperature │ ├── Top-P Sampling │ └── Model Behavior │ ├── 02. Core Prompting │ ├── Zero-Shot │ ├── One-Shot │ ├── Few-Shot │ ├── Role Prompting │ ├── Delimiters │ └── Output Formatting │ ├── 03. Reasoning Techniques │ ├── Chain of Thought │ ├── Tree of Thoughts │ ├── ReAct │ ├── Self-Reflection │ ├── Step-by-Step Reasoning │ └── Verification Loops │ ├── 04. Structured Outputs │ ├── JSON │ ├── XML │ ├── Markdown │ ├── Tables │ ├── Schemas │ └── Function Calling │ ├── 05. Context Engineering │ ├── RAG │ ├── Memory │ ├── Knowledge Bases │ ├── Vector Databases │ ├── Context Compression │ └── Prompt Chaining │ ├── 06. Agent Prompting │ ├── Tool Use │ ├── Planning │ ├── Task Decomposition │ ├── Multi-Agent Workflows │ ├── Reflection │ └── Autonomous Execution │ ├── 07. Prompt Optimization │ ├── Evaluation │ ├── A/B Testing │ ├── Prompt Versioning │ ├── Guardrails │ ├── Hallucination Reduction │ └── Reliability Testing │ ├── 08. AI Coding Prompts │ ├── Code Generation │ ├── Refactoring │ ├── Debugging │ ├── Test Creation │ ├── Documentation │ └── Code Reviews │ ├── 09. Business Applications │ ├── Content Creation │ ├── Research │ ├── Marketing │ ├── Sales │ ├── Customer Support │ └── Automation │ └── 10. Future of Prompting ├── Context Engineering ├── AI Agents ├── MCP ├── Agentic Workflows ├── Multimodal Prompting └── Natural Language Programming Most people write prompts. The top 1% engineer systems around prompts. 🚀
MICROSOFT JUST LAUNCHED THEIR OWN CODING AI INSIDE GITHUB COPILOT — AND IT IS COMPLETELY FREE STARTING TODAY. Not rented from OpenAI. Not built on OpenAI data. Built by Microsoft. Trained inside Copilot's production environment. Rolled out to every Copilot tier right now. It is called MAI Code 1 Flash. Here is what makes it different from every other coding model in the picker: - 60% fewer tokens on complex tasks versus comparable models. - 85.8% on Microsoft's adversarial coding benchmark. - 256K context window. - Trained inside the environment it ships in rather than externally tested then handed over. Here is the full setup in 6 steps: Step 1: Create a free GitHub account at github.com/signup Step 2: Enable GitHub Copilot at github.com/github-copilot… and select the free plan. No credit card required. Step 3: Install the VS Code extension. Open VS Code, press Ctrl+Shift+X on Windows or Cmd+Shift+X on Mac, search GitHub Copilot, install the extension by GitHub. Step 4: Sign in. VS Code will show a Sign in to GitHub prompt. Click it, approve in the browser, return to VS Code. Step 5: Open Copilot Chat. Press Ctrl+Shift+I on Windows or Cmd+Shift+I on Mac. Step 6: Select MAI Code 1 Flash from the model dropdown at the bottom of the chat panel. Already have Copilot? Skip straight to Step 5. Free coding model wars just got serious. Bookmark this before you pay for another coding subscription. Follow @cyrilXBT for every free AI coding tool the moment it drops.
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Excited to share how Anthropic's data team has automated 95% of business analytics queries with Claude. Blog post covers how we approach evals, ablations, and online validation!
How do we automate business analytics with Claude? New blog post covering our best practices for skills, data foundations, and evaluations when building agents to perform data analysis: claude.com/blog/how-anthr…
I spent 1000 hours figuring out Claude the hard way. Here are guides I wish someone had sent me earlier: Claude for Dummies: ruben.substack.com/p/claude-for-d… Claude certificates: ruben.substack.com/p/im-claude-ce… How to prompt Claude: ruben.substack.com/p/prompt-47 Claude Cowork: claude-co.work Claude for teams: how-claude.team Cowork + Projects: ruben.substack.com/p/claude-cowor… Claude for slides: how-to-gamma.ai Claude Skills: claude-skills.free Claude connectors: ruben.substack.com/p/claude-conne… Stop hitting Claude's limits: ruben.substack.com/p/how-to-stop-… Upload yourself in Claude: ruben.substack.com/p/youre-just-a… Stop prompting Claude: ruben.substack.com/p/stop-prompti… Claude Code: claudecode.free ___ 1. Save this list for later (three dots, top right). 2. Share it with a friend by ♻️ reposting this image. 3. Subscribe to my free newsletter: how-to-ai.guide.
As an AI Engineer. Please learn: Harness engineering, not just prompt engineering Context engineering, not just long prompts Prompt caching vs. semantic caching tradeoffs KV cache management, eviction, reuse, and memory pressure at scale Prefill vs. decode latency and why they optimize differently Continuous batching, paged attention, and throughput optimization Speculative decoding vs. quantization vs. distillation tradeoffs INT8, INT4, FP8, AWQ, GPTQ, and when quantization hurts quality Structured output failures, schema validation, repair loops, and fallback chains Function calling reliability, tool contracts, argument validation, and idempotency Agent guardrails, loop budgets, tool budgets, and termination conditions Model routing, graceful fallback logic, and degraded-mode UX RAG architecture: chunking, embeddings, hybrid search, reranking, and freshness Retrieval evals: recall, precision, grounding, attribution, and citation quality Evals: golden sets, regression tests, adversarial tests, LLM-as-judge, and human evals LLM observability as a first-class discipline: traces, spans, tokens, latency, errors, and drift Cost attribution per feature, workflow, tenant, and user journey not just per model Safety engineering: prompt injection defense, data leakage prevention, and permission boundaries Multi-tenant isolation, cache safety, and cross-user context contamination prevention Fine-tuning vs. in-context learning vs. RAG vs. distillation and when each is the wrong tool Latency, quality, cost, and reliability tradeoffs across the full inference stack Production failure modes: hallucinated tool calls, malformed JSON, stale retrieval, runaway agents, and silent eval regressions Shipping LLM systems as reliable infrastructure, not demos wrapped around prompts aiengineeringfromscratch.com
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