Taksch Dube

prompt engineering is what you say. context engineering is what you show.

your RAG is probably broken because of a 2023 Stanford paper. we fix that.

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OpenClaw's entire AI agent architecture runs on markdown files.
SOUL.md = personality
MEMORY.md = long-term recall
HEARTBEAT.md = proactive behavior
Daily logs = session journal
No database. No vector store. Just .md files in a folder.

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WTF are World Models!? A simple explanation for humans who don't speak robot (yet)

trying to get "V-JEPA-pilled" to catch on. it's not going well. it sounds like a prescription drug

but @yann-lecun.bsky.social quit meta over it, raised €500M with no product, and a model trained on 62 hours of video just outperformed systems trained on the entire internet
→ shorturl.at/Ud9Pa

WTF are Reasoning Models!? A simple explanation for humans who don't speak robot (yet)

submitted my first conference abstract

advisor's feedback: "submit it. good experience. you will be rejected brutally." (paying tuition to be professionally humiliated)

anyway DeepSeek trained R1 the same way: mass rejection until it learned to reason

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here's 2,000 words on why your company has 193 days to comply with regulations it's pretending don't exist: open.substack.com/pub/takschdu...

WTF is Model Context Protocol!? A simple explanation for humans who don't speak robot (yet)

I wrote about MCP because I got mass annoyance with "it's like USB for AI!" which explains nothing

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WTF is Model Context Protocol!? A simple explanation for humans who don't speak robot (yet)

I wrote about MCP because I got mass annoyance with "it's like USB for AI!" which explains nothing

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2025 AI recap:

✅ 46% of GitHub code is now AI-generated
✅ Models got so good they're basically interchangeable

I made 10 predictions for 2026. Scoring myself in January 2027.

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Someone consumed 10 billion tokens in one month. That's 12,500 copies of War and Peace.

Another company went from $2,400 → $60,000 in four months.

New post: WTF is AI Cost Optimization

How teams are cutting LLM costs 50-80% without losing quality.

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New post: WTF is LLM Observability

Your monitoring: print("response received")
Your bill: $8,000
Your CEO: "explain"

67% of production LLM apps have no cost tracking. Let's fix that before your AI becomes a very expensive random number generator.

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Air Canada's chatbot told a customer they could get a bereavement discount retroactively. Air Canada paid $650.88 + fees.
New post on AI Guardrails—how to not end up in court because your LLM made promises you can't keep:
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Locally deploying AI? Read below for some insight.

Don't know what that means? We can change that in less than 10 minutes.

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Subscriptions | Substack

Locally deploying AI? Read below for some insight.

Don't know what that means? We can change that in less than 10 minutes.

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Part 2 of my article on GenAI testing. People processing data and automating document related tasks would great benefit from this. Next week, we talk about Local Deployments but PewDiePie beat me to the punch from what I hear.

Check it out: open.substack.com/pub/takschdu...

My AI is fire is not a metric, want to learn how good your system is?

Read this post for a quick rundown: open.substack.com/pub/takschdu...

Watch out for part 2 with generation metrics and more.

WTF is Fine-Tuning!? A simple explanation for humans who don't speak robot (yet)

Forgot the link: takschdube.substack.com/p/wtf-is-fin...

:p

Explaining fine-tuning, LoRAs, and QLoRAs like you're a semi-technical person who needs to make a decision about this stuff by Friday. 5 minutes, zero BS, and a couple of laughs.

Please read, laugh, and love. Covering performance metrics for AI next week.

WTF is RAG!? open.substack.com/pub/takschdu...

WTF is Prompt Engineering!? A simple explanation for humans who don't speak robot (yet)

WTF is Prompt Engineering!?
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Stanford biologists just created the world’s first AI-designed viruses, taking a step towards AI-generated life ... and I thought the weekend was crazy enough already

HILARIOUS AND INSIGHTFUL!!

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Woah! Funnier, more informative!?

Need to check this out now: substack.com/inbox/post/1...

#ML #AI #Learning

Germany Already Met Its 2028 Goal for Reducing Coal-Fired Power Germany has already met its 2028 goal for reducing coal-fired power generation, so won’t need to order the shutdown of any plants for a second year running, the country’s regulator said.

Here's a ray of sunshine in a very dark world

Germany has already exceeded its goal of shutting down 8 GW of coal plants - 3 years earlier than expected

Amazing what a little sun and wind can do 😎

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It’s clearly intentional … LOL

Pretty cool

Ура! Финальная #анимация готова!

Woohoo! Final #animation is complete!

#pixelart #инди #индиразработка

statistical learning vs neural network meme

the last 10 years in Machine Learning:

hmmmm