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Generative AI in the Real World: Measuring Skills with Kian Katanforoosh

Feb 6, 2025 | oreilly.com | Ben Lorica |Kian Katanforoosh

How does AI help us do a better job?
Beyond

Jan 21, 2025 | oreilly.com | Hugo Bowne-Anderson |Alan Nichol

Enterprise AI teams are discovering that purely agentic approaches (dynamically chaining LLM calls) don’t deliver the reliability needed for production systems. The prompt-and-pray model—where business logic lives entirely in prompts—creates systems that are unreliable, inefficient, and impossible to maintain at scale. A shift toward structured automation, which separates conversational ability from business logic execution, is needed for enterprise-grade reliability.
Technology Trends for 2025

Jan 14, 2025 | oreilly.com | Mike Loukides

Welcome to our annual report on the usage of the O’Reilly learning platform. It’s been an exciting year, dominated by a constant stream of breakthroughs and announcements in AI, and complicated by industry-wide layoffs. Generative AI gets better and better—but that trend may be at an end. Now the ball is in the application developers’ court: Where, when, and how will AI be integrated into the applications we build and use every day?
Radar Trends to Watch: January 2025

Jan 7, 2025 | oreilly.com | Mike Loukides

Despite its 31 days, December is a short month. It’s hard for announcements and happenings other than office parties to get attention. Fighting this trend, OpenAI made a series of announcements: their “12 Days of OpenAI.” Not to be upstaged, Google responded with a flurry of announcements, including their Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model. Models appeared that could use streaming audio and video for both input and output.
Summarizing Books as Podcasts

Dec 16, 2024 | oreilly.com | Mike Loukides

Like just about everyone, we were impressed by the ability of NotebookLM to generate podcasts: Two virtual people holding a discussion. You can give it some links, and it will generate a podcast based on the links. The podcasts were interesting and engaging. But they also had some limitations. The problem with NotebookLM is that, while you can give it a prompt, it largely does what it’s going to do.
Generative Logic

Dec 10, 2024 | oreilly.com | Mike Loukides

Alibaba’s latest model, QwQ-32B-Preview, has gained some impressive reviews for its reasoning abilities. Like OpenAI’s GPT-4 o1,1 its training has emphasized reasoning rather than just reproducing language. That seemed like something worth testing out—or at least playing around with—so when I heard that it very quickly became available in Ollama and wasn’t too large to run on a moderately well-equipped laptop, I downloaded QwQ and tried it out.
Radar Trends to Watch: December 2024

Dec 3, 2024 | oreilly.com | Mike Loukides

It’s the end of the year for Radar! We hope all of our readers enjoy the holidays. Here’s one prediction for 2025:Is this the end of the road for improving LLM performance by scaling either the number of parameters or the training data? No one knows yet. Regardless of the answer, we expect interest to shift toward smaller models. We’ll grudgingly allow the 70B parameter model to qualify as “small,” but we really mean 20B or fewer parameters.
Blown Away

Nov 12, 2024 | oreilly.com | Mike Loukides

Between vacation, end-of-year projects, the coming holidays, and other hysteria, I haven’t come up with an article this month. So here’s a quick list of things that have amazed me recently. I’m far from the first person to find NotebookLM amazing, and I certainly won’t be the last.
Radar Trends to Watch: November 2024

Nov 5, 2024 | oreilly.com | Mike Loukides

October had many language model releases. The mid-size models, and even the small models, are catching up to frontier models like GPT-4.5o in performance. But the release that blew us all away wasn’t a language model: It was Claude’s computer use API. Computer use allows you to teach Claude how to use a computer: how to run an application, click on buttons, and use a shell or an editor. It has many problems, security not being the least of them—but it’s bound to improve.
Generative AI in the Real World: Getting Ahead of the Curve with Claire Vo

Oct 24, 2024 | oreilly.com | Ben Lorica |Claire Vo

Building better products and seizing new opportunities &nbsp 00:00 / In this episode, Ben Lorica talks with Claire Vo, chief product officer at LaunchDarkly and founder of ChatPRD. AI gives us a new set of tools that make everyone more productive and efficient. Those tools will allow more experimentation; they’ll allow more people to participate in product development; and they’ll create new opportunities for startups. As Claire says, this new tooling lets everyone get more ambitious—and if...