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October 27, 2025 Featured • Software Engineering

Agentic AI Patterns - Engineering Systems That Don't Fail

Real-world patterns and antipatterns for building production agentic AI systems. Learn from frontier lab practices, avoid catastrophic mistakes, and ship reliable agent architectures.

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October 12, 2025 AI Research

The Small Sample Problem - How Minimal Data Poisoning Threatens LLM Security

Groundbreaking research from Anthropic, UK AISI, and the Alan Turing Institute reveals that as few as 250 malicious documents can backdoor language models of any size. This finding fundamentally chall...

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September 25, 2025 AI Research

The Personality Mirror - How LLMs' Hidden Character Shapes Everything You Know

Every LLM has a distinct personality that fundamentally warps the information it provides. As we mistake these AI quirks for objective intelligence, we're unknowingly filtering all human knowledge thr...

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September 22, 2025 AI Research

The Data Fossil Fuel Crisis - Why LLMs Are Hitting Peak Information

Large Language Models have consumed the internet's collective knowledge, but as we enter the era of synthetic training data, we're creating a closed-loop system that may be fundamentally limiting AI's...

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July 26, 2025 AI Research

Beyond the Safety Theater - What Real AI Safety Looks Like (Part 2)

With AI companies collectively failing basic safety standards while racing toward AGI, we need radical reforms that go far beyond voluntary pledges and self-assessment. Here's what genuine AI safety a...

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July 25, 2025 AI Research

The AI Safety Mirage - Why Industry Rankings Are Failing Us (Part 1)

The Future of Life Institute's latest AI Safety Index reveals a devastating truth—even the

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July 23, 2025 AI Research

Beyond Test Scores - Why We Need to Measure AI's Moral Compass, Not Its Memory

We're celebrating AI systems for acing human exams while ignoring what truly matters—their ability to navigate ethical complexity, understand nuance, and grapple with the moral weight of real-world ...

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July 22, 2025 AI Research

The Living Memory - When Your Digital Twin Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself

Imagine a digital version of yourself that contains every memory you've ever formed, every decision you've ever made, and every conversation you've ever had—powered by an LLM that can think, reason,...

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July 21, 2025 AI Research

The Prompt Practitioner's Handbook - Heuristics for Better Industry Research

Effective LLM prompting for industry research isn't about perfect instructions—it's about applying battle-tested heuristics that consistently produce actionable insights. These practical principles ...

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July 13, 2025 AI Research

LLMs as Evaluators - Who Watches the Watchers?

As LLMs increasingly evaluate other LLMs, grade student work, and assess human performance, we create a circular system where artificial intelligence defines its own success criteria. The implications...

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July 10, 2025 AI Research

Red Teaming AI for Social Good - Testing for Hidden Biases in the Age of Generative AI

As generative AI systems become integral to our digital lives, UNESCO's Red Teaming playbook reveals the urgent need for systematic bias testing. But should we test for biases or accept them as reflec...

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July 9, 2025 AI Research

Can LLMs Be Unbiased? - The Dictionary Dilemma and the Weight of the World's Opinions

Large Language Models inherit the biases of human civilization while claiming objectivity. But should they be neutral arbiters or faithful mirrors of human complexity? The answer reveals fundamental q...

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July 7, 2025 AI Research

Teaching LLMs Like Teaching Kids to Ride - Why Analytical Tasks Need Focused Instruction

Just as teaching a child to ride a bike requires clear, focused instruction rather than overwhelming information, effective LLM prompt engineering for analytical tasks demands precision, specificity, ...

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July 2, 2025 AI Research

The Representation Crisis - How LLM-Based Synthetic Users Obscure Rather Than Illuminate User Understanding

The proliferation of LLM-generated synthetic users in design and research creates a fundamental crisis of representation that undermines the very purpose of user-centered design. This analysis exposes...

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June 30, 2025 AI Research

The Case for Personality in LLM Agents - Why Character-Driven AI is Essential for Effective Human-Computer Interaction

Designing personality into LLM agents isn't cosmetic enhancement—it's a fundamental requirement for creating trustworthy, effective, and sustainable human-AI interactions. This article argues for de...

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June 29, 2025 AI Research

The "Yes Sir" Problem - Why LLMs Can't Disagree and What This Means for AI Development

Large Language Models exhibit a fundamental inability to meaningfully disagree with users, not due to safety constraints but because of deeper limitations in reasoning and argumentation capabilities. ...

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June 27, 2025 AI Research

The Hidden Costs of AI Development - What I've Learned Working Across Global Tech Ecosystems

Through my work as an AI Tech Lead across startups, enterprises, and government projects spanning Pakistan, the US, Ireland, and France, I've witnessed firsthand how the current AI development paradig...

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April 15, 2025 AI Research

From Generalist to Specialist - The Case for Persona-Driven AI Architecture

Despite advances in generative AI capabilities, enterprises continue to struggle with generic AI systems that lack specialized expertise in critical domains. This research-backed framework explores ho...

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March 26, 2025 AI Research

RAG, Finetuning, and Prompt Engineering - Extending the Capabilities of LLMs

Large Language Models have revolutionized AI with their ability to understand and generate human-like text. However, these models have inherent limitations in their knowledge and capabilities. This co...

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March 5, 2025 AI Research

Managing Executive Expectations for Generative AI - Bridging the Reality Gap

Generative AI has become a frequent topic of strategic discussions in boardrooms across industries. While the technology offers remarkable capabilities, there's often a significant gap between executi...

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February 20, 2025 AI Research

Titans - The Next "Attention is All You Need" Moment for LLM Architecture

Google Research's new paper

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January 28, 2025 AI Research

DeepSeek R1's Game-Changing Approach to Parameter Activation - What Industry Needs to Know

The recent release of DeepSeek R1 challenges our conventional understanding of large language model deployment. While most discussions center around scaling parameters and computing power, DeepSeek's ...

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