How to improve the memory of AI agents

When you use an AI agent, the more contextual data the agent has about the job, the better it will perform. But agents don’t have much memory, since the large language models (LLMs) they depend on are stateless. When their memory runs out, the agent glitches out,...

Claude Sonnet 5 boosts coding, reasoning, and tool use

Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5, an update that is substantially improved over predecessor Claude Sonnet 4.6 in coding, reasoning, tool use, and knowledge work, according to the company. Claude Sonnet 5 was introduced June 30. It can make plans, use tools like...

Rust introduces new Range types

Rust 1.96.0 has arrived, bringing new Range* types to the programming language known for its memory safety. Announced May 28, Rust 1.96.0 can be installed by current users by running the command rustup update stable. In elaborating on the new Range* types, the Rust...

A better way to manage LLM spending

As an old Delphi guy, I remember well the “language wars” we had with the Visual Basic guys. An early codename for Delphi was “VBK” — VB Killer — and the VB community took exception. They’d come to our Delphi forums and pick fights. Naturally, we brash Delphi guys...