Notes from the trenches on AI engineering, LLM apps, and the full-stack work that holds it all together.
Gemini Canvas can turn spreadsheet tabs into a shareable interactive dashboard without exporting to Looker first. Here is the workflow I would use for client ops trackers and content calendars.
OpenAI added native transparent PNG output to GPT-Image-2 in API preview. Here is how to call it, what breaks in production, and when you still need a cutout pass.
Greptile's TREX layer runs PR branches in sandboxes and attaches logs, screenshots, and traces to review comments. Here is what that means for teams shipping with Cursor, Claude Code, and other agentic coding tools.
The open-source Hiring Agent pipeline parses PDFs to JSON Resume, enriches with GitHub repo metrics, and scores candidates with role-specific rubrics. Here is the architecture and where I would add guardrails.
Business Insider reports Hugging Face is exploring a sale at $13 billion or more, nearly 3x its 2023 valuation, weeks after Stripe agreed to buy OpenRouter for about $8 billion.
The Kimi-K2.6-519B-NVFP4 checkpoint prunes MoE experts with Cerebras REAP rules. It is strong on code, math, and tool calls, but you must keep outputs bounded to avoid repetition loops.
Meituan's LongCat-Video-Avatar 1.5 turns one image plus one voice clip into lip-synced avatar video with 8-step distillation inference. Here is the hardware honest breakdown and when fal.ai beats self-hosting.
Loop engineering is designing verifiable agent cycles instead of hand-editing prompts. Here is the maker-checker pattern, when loops earn their token cost, and how SkillOpt-style optimizers fit in.