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Image by Editor   # Introduction  LangChain, one of today’s leading frameworks for building and orchestrating artificial intelligence (AI) applications based on large language models (LLMs) and agent engineering, recently released the State of Agent Engineering report, in which 1,300 professionals of diverse roles and business backgrounds were surveyed to uncover the current state of this notable AI trend. This article selects some top picks and insights from the report and elaborates on them in a tone accessible to a wider audience, uncovering some of the key terms and jargon related to AI agents. You can also find more about the…

Image by Editor   # Introduction  If you follow artificial intelligence communities on LinkedIn, Reddit, or X, you have likely seen developers discussing OpenClaw. The excitement is significant. Unlike typical chatbots, this tool can actually perform tasks on your computer. Users are utilizing it to automate workflows, manage files, send emails, and even control application programming interfaces (APIs). The project began as Clawdbot, later became Moltbot, and now operates as OpenClaw. It represents a new era of artificial intelligence: agents that can execute tasks for you instead of merely discussing them. In this article, I am going to break down what…

In our previous article of the Excel 101 series, we learnt all there is about conditional logic and operators in Excel. These operators help massively in functions like IF, AND, OR, etc. However, there is another family of functions that is used massively by Excel users and largely makes use of these operators to yield results. This is exactly the set of functions we shall learn in this article. To name them, these functions are the COUNT, COUNTIF, and all the related formulas. To give you a glimpse of how these functions work, think of a task where you may…

Image by Editor   # Introduction  The artificial intelligence (AI) landscape is crowded with ambitious startups, each promising to revolutionize their respective industries. But beneath the glossy pitch decks and bold projections lies a more complex reality that experienced mentors see every day. Understanding the gap between startup aspirations and practical execution reveals important lessons about building sustainable AI companies. Salil Darji brings a unique perspective to this conversation. With a background spanning technology strategy consulting at IBM, product management roles across multiple industries, and several years mentoring AI startups through organizations like C10 Labs, he has witnessed both the promise…

Struggling to make AI systems reliable and consistent? Many teams face the same problem. A powerful LLM gives great results, but a cheaper model often fails on the same task. This makes production systems hard to scale. Harness engineering offers a solution. Instead of changing the model, you build a system around it. You use prompts, tools, middleware, and evaluation to guide the model toward reliable outputs. In this article, I have built a reliable AI coding agent using LangChain’s DeepAgents and LangSmith. We also test its performance using standard benchmarks. What is Harness Engineering? Harness engineering focuses on building…

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For different learning styles, goals, and comfort levels, finding a course that matches how you learn is HARD. Some people need visuals. While others wanna jump straight into code. Some need structure, others need flexibility. And many learners just want proof of effort at the end in the form of a certificate. This list is built with that in mind. A list of free ML courses, each for a different type of learner, so you can stop forcing yourself into the wrong format and start learning in a way that works for you. From the classroom lover to the hermit, this article got everyone covered. …

The last two years were defined by a single word: Generative AI. Tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude turned AI from a tech term to a household name. However, we are now entering the next phase of the AI evolution. The conversation is shifting from AI that generates to AI that acts. Gone are the days of guiding AI as an instructor, every step of the way. This is the era of Agentic AI.  While they share the same DNA, the difference between a Generative AI and Agentic AI, as you’ll soon realize, is the difference between a calculator and…

Google recently introduced Gemini Embedding 2, its first natively multimodal embedding model. This is an important step forward because it brings text, images, video, audio, and documents into a single shared embedding space. Instead of working with separate models for each type of data, developers can now use one embedding model across multiple modalities for retrieval, search, clustering, and classification.  That shift is powerful in theory, but it becomes even more interesting when applied to a real project. To explore what Gemini Embedding 2 can do in practice, I built a simple image-matching system that identifies which person in a…

You reading this tells me you wish to learn more about Excel. This article continues our Excel series, where we explored the VLOOKUP function in the last iteration. The complete VLOOKUP guide demonstrated how the function works and how best to use it. This time, we shall bring the same focus to conditional logic and formulas like the IF function in Excel. The aim is to understand the different types of conditional logics and know how to use their operators in a working function inside Excel. So, no fluff needed here. Let’s simply dive in, starting with what Conditional Logic…