Developers & Builders — The Latent DailyAI coding, agents, APIs, RAG, fine-tuning, local AI and MLOps.https://thelatentdaily.com/en-usCompute is the new capital: why AI startups raise GPUs, not just cashhttps://thelatentdaily.com/articles/compute-is-the-new-capital-ai-startups/https://thelatentdaily.com/articles/compute-is-the-new-capital-ai-startups/For AI startups, access to GPUs can matter more than money. How cloud deals, credits and chip reservations shape who can build frontier models.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:55:00 GMTStartups & Fundingstartups-fundingcomputegpusclouddario_admin@resolvia-crm.techBuild, buy or fine-tune? How companies choose their AI approachhttps://thelatentdaily.com/articles/build-buy-or-fine-tune-enterprise-ai/https://thelatentdaily.com/articles/build-buy-or-fine-tune-enterprise-ai/Off-the-shelf assistants, API integrations, retrieval-augmented generation, fine-tuning or your own model: the trade-offs in cost, control and time to value.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:53:00 GMTBusiness & Enterpriseenterpriseragfine-tuningstrategydario_admin@resolvia-crm.techHow to transcribe audio on your own computer with Whisperhttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/transcribe-audio-locally-with-whisper/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/transcribe-audio-locally-with-whisper/Install OpenAI's open-source Whisper speech recognition model, transcribe recordings offline, choose the right model size and export subtitles in minutes.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:47:00 GMTGuides & Tutorialsguidesspeechlocal-aiopen-sourcewhisperdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techLearning path for developers who want to build with LLMshttps://thelatentdaily.com/articles/learning-path-for-developers-building-with-llms/https://thelatentdaily.com/articles/learning-path-for-developers-building-with-llms/From your first API call to retrieval, tool use, evaluation and deployment: an ordered path for software developers moving into AI engineering.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:39:00 GMTCourses & Learning Pathscourseslearning-pathdevelopersllmsdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techHow to cut your AI API bill: caching, batching and model routinghttps://thelatentdaily.com/articles/how-to-cut-your-ai-api-bill/https://thelatentdaily.com/articles/how-to-cut-your-ai-api-bill/Practical techniques to reduce LLM API costs without hurting quality: prompt caching, batch APIs, smaller models, routing, shorter contexts and output limits.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:02:00 GMTPricing & Dealspricingcost-optimizationapisdevelopersdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techModel deprecations explained: what happens when an AI model is retiredhttps://thelatentdaily.com/articles/ai-model-deprecations-explained/https://thelatentdaily.com/articles/ai-model-deprecations-explained/AI providers regularly retire older models. How deprecation timelines work, what breaks when a model is shut down and how to plan migrations without surprises.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:00:00 GMTChangelogs & Updateschangelogsdeprecationsapisdevelopersdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techHow to use AI coding assistants effectively: a practical workflowhttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/how-to-use-ai-coding-assistants-effectively/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/how-to-use-ai-coding-assistants-effectively/Get better results from Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code and other coding assistants: give context, work in small steps, review every change and keep tests in the loop.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:57:00 GMTAI Codingai-codingdevelopersproductivitybest-practicesdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techVibe coding explained: building software by describing it — and the riskshttps://thelatentdaily.com/articles/vibe-coding-explained/https://thelatentdaily.com/articles/vibe-coding-explained/What "vibe coding" means, how people build apps by talking to AI, where it works brilliantly, where it fails, and how to keep vibe-coded projects safe.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:56:00 GMTAI Codingai-codingvibe-codingno-codesecuritydario_admin@resolvia-crm.techWhat are AI agents? How they plan, use tools and take actionshttps://thelatentdaily.com/articles/what-are-ai-agents-explained/https://thelatentdaily.com/articles/what-are-ai-agents-explained/AI agents go beyond chat: they plan, call tools, browse and act toward a goal. How the agent loop works, the main design patterns, real uses and the risks.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:55:00 GMTAgents & Agentic AIagentsagentic-aitool-useexplainerdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techModel Context Protocol (MCP) explained: the "USB-C port" for AI toolshttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/model-context-protocol-mcp-explained/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/model-context-protocol-mcp-explained/MCP is an open standard for connecting AI assistants to tools and data. How servers, clients and tools work, how to try it, and the security points to know.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:54:00 GMTAgents & Agentic AImcpagentstool-useopen-standardsdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techYour first LLM API call: a step-by-step guide in Pythonhttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/first-llm-api-call-python-guide/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/first-llm-api-call-python-guide/Set up an API key safely, send your first request to a language model in Python, understand messages, tokens and parameters, and handle errors and costs.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:53:00 GMTAPIs & SDKsapispythondeveloperstutorialdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techStructured outputs and function calling: getting reliable data from LLMshttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/structured-outputs-and-function-calling-explained/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/structured-outputs-and-function-calling-explained/How to make language models return valid JSON that matches a schema, how function calling works, and how to validate outputs so your application never breaks.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:52:00 GMTAPIs & SDKsapisjsonfunction-callingdevelopersdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techHow retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) works, step by stephttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/how-retrieval-augmented-generation-works/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/how-retrieval-augmented-generation-works/RAG lets AI answer from your documents. Each stage explained: ingestion, chunking, embeddings, retrieval, reranking, prompting and evaluation, with practical tips.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:51:00 GMTRAG, Search & Vector DBsragembeddingsvector-databasesdevelopersdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techVector databases explained: how they work and how to choose onehttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/vector-databases-explained-how-to-choose/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/vector-databases-explained-how-to-choose/Embeddings, similarity search, indexes like HNSW and the trade-offs between pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, Milvus and Chroma for your RAG project.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:50:00 GMTRAG, Search & Vector DBsvector-databasesragembeddingsdevelopersdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techFine-tuning an LLM with LoRA: a practical overviewhttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/fine-tuning-llm-with-lora-practical-overview/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/fine-tuning-llm-with-lora-practical-overview/When fine-tuning helps, how LoRA and QLoRA make it affordable, how to prepare data, train, evaluate and deploy an adapter — and when not to fine-tune at all.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:49:00 GMTFine-tuning & Trainingfine-tuningloraqloraopen-weightsdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techKnowledge distillation explained: how small AI models learn from big oneshttps://thelatentdaily.com/articles/knowledge-distillation-explained/https://thelatentdaily.com/articles/knowledge-distillation-explained/Distillation trains a compact "student" model to imitate a large "teacher". How it works, why it powers today's small models, and its legal and quality limits.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:48:00 GMTFine-tuning & Trainingdistillationsmall-modelstrainingexplainerdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techHow to run a local LLM with Ollama: installation to first chathttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/run-local-llm-with-ollama-guide/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/run-local-llm-with-ollama-guide/Install Ollama, download an open model, chat in the terminal or a web interface, pick a model that fits your memory and use the local API from your own code.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:47:00 GMTLocal & On-device AIlocal-aiollamaopen-weightsprivacydario_admin@resolvia-crm.techQuantization explained: how big AI models run on small hardwarehttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/quantization-explained-running-big-models/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/quantization-explained-running-big-models/Quantization shrinks AI models by storing weights with fewer bits. How 8-bit and 4-bit formats work, GGUF, GPTQ and AWQ, and the quality trade-offs to expect.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:46:00 GMTLocal & On-device AIquantizationlocal-aiinferenceexplainerdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techHow LLM inference serving works: batching, KV cache and vLLMhttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/how-llm-inference-serving-works-vllm/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/how-llm-inference-serving-works-vllm/What happens when a server answers thousands of LLM requests: prefill and decode, the KV cache, continuous batching, PagedAttention and the metrics that matter.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:45:00 GMTMLOps & Infrastructureinferencevllmmlopsgpusdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techHow much GPU memory does an AI model need? A sizing guidehttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/gpu-memory-sizing-for-llms/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/gpu-memory-sizing-for-llms/Estimate the GPU memory needed to run or fine-tune a language model: weights, KV cache, activations and overhead, with worked examples for 8B and 70B models.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:44:00 GMTMLOps & Infrastructuregpusmlopsinferencesizingdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techHow to build an evaluation set for an LLM applicationhttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/how-to-build-an-evaluation-set-for-llm-apps/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/how-to-build-an-evaluation-set-for-llm-apps/The most important tool in AI engineering: how to collect test cases, define success criteria, score outputs automatically and by hand, and run evals on every change.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:43:00 GMTEvals & Observabilityevalstestingdevelopersqualitydario_admin@resolvia-crm.techLLM-as-a-judge explained: using AI models to grade AI outputhttps://thelatentdaily.com/articles/llm-as-a-judge-explained/https://thelatentdaily.com/articles/llm-as-a-judge-explained/Language models can score other models' answers at scale. How LLM-as-a-judge works, its known biases, and how to design rubrics and checks that make it reliable.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:42:00 GMTEvals & Observabilityevalsllm-as-a-judgetestingresearchdario_admin@resolvia-crm.tech10 open-source AI projects every developer should knowhttps://thelatentdaily.com/articles/open-source-ai-projects-every-developer-should-know/https://thelatentdaily.com/articles/open-source-ai-projects-every-developer-should-know/From Hugging Face Transformers to llama.cpp, vLLM, Ollama, LangChain and ComfyUI: the open-source projects that form the backbone of today's AI development.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:41:00 GMTOpen-source Projects of the Weekopen-sourcedeveloperstoolsgithubdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techHow to evaluate an open-source AI project before you depend on ithttps://thelatentdaily.com/articles/how-to-evaluate-open-source-ai-project/https://thelatentdaily.com/articles/how-to-evaluate-open-source-ai-project/Stars aren't enough. Check maintenance, community, license, security, documentation and governance before building on an open-source AI library or model.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:40:00 GMTOpen-source Projects of the Weekopen-sourcesecuritydevelopersdue-diligencedario_admin@resolvia-crm.techWhat is an NPU? AI PCs and on-device AI explainedhttps://thelatentdaily.com/articles/what-is-an-npu-ai-pcs-explained/https://thelatentdaily.com/articles/what-is-an-npu-ai-pcs-explained/Neural processing units let laptops and phones run AI locally. What NPUs do, what "40 TOPS" means, which features use them and whether you need an AI PC.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:35:00 GMTAI PCs, Phones & Devicesnpuai-pcdeviceson-device-aidario_admin@resolvia-crm.techPrompt injection and LLM security: the risks every AI app must handlehttps://thelatentdaily.com/articles/prompt-injection-and-llm-security-explained/https://thelatentdaily.com/articles/prompt-injection-and-llm-security-explained/Prompt injection, data leakage, insecure tool use and model supply-chain risks explained with the OWASP Top 10 for LLM applications and practical defenses.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:24:00 GMTPrivacy & Securitysecurityprompt-injectionowaspdevelopersdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techAI NPCs and procedural worlds: how games are becoming generativehttps://thelatentdaily.com/articles/ai-npcs-and-procedural-worlds-explained/https://thelatentdaily.com/articles/ai-npcs-and-procedural-worlds-explained/How language models power conversational game characters, how procedural generation creates worlds, and the design, cost and safety challenges studios face.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 03:53:00 GMTGaminggamingnpcsprocedural-generationagentsdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techHow AI is used in telecom networkshttps://thelatentdaily.com/articles/how-ai-is-used-in-telecom-networks/https://thelatentdaily.com/articles/how-ai-is-used-in-telecom-networks/Self-optimizing networks, energy savings, predictive maintenance, fraud and spam detection, customer care and AI-RAN: how telecom operators use AI, and what 6G may bring.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 03:16:00 GMTTelecomtelecom5gnetworksinfrastructuredario_admin@resolvia-crm.techHow to contribute to open-source AI projectshttps://thelatentdaily.com/articles/how-to-contribute-to-open-source-ai/https://thelatentdaily.com/articles/how-to-contribute-to-open-source-ai/A step-by-step guide to contributing to open-source AI: finding a project, starting with docs and issues, making pull requests, and sharing models or datasets.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 02:59:00 GMTCommunitiesopen-sourcegithubcontributinghow-todario_admin@resolvia-crm.techPaper of the day: Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), explainedhttps://thelatentdaily.com/research/direct-preference-optimization-dpo-paper-explained/https://thelatentdaily.com/research/direct-preference-optimization-dpo-paper-explained/DPO showed language models can be aligned to human preferences without a separate reward model or reinforcement learning. How it works and why it spread so fast.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 02:54:00 GMTPaper of the Dayresearchdpoalignmentrlhfdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techQuick take: bigger context windows are not always betterhttps://thelatentdaily.com/articles/quick-take-bigger-context-windows-are-not-always-better/https://thelatentdaily.com/articles/quick-take-bigger-context-windows-are-not-always-better/Models now accept huge inputs, but stuffing everything into the prompt can reduce accuracy and raise costs. When long context helps, and when retrieval works better.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 02:47:00 GMTQuick Takecontext-windowraglong-contextopiniondario_admin@resolvia-crm.tech