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  • AWS Open Source Blog: Strands Agents and the Model-Driven Approach

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/strands-agents-and-the-model-driven-approach/ Source: AWS Open Source Blog Title: Strands Agents and the Model-Driven Approach Feedly Summary: Until recently, building AI agents meant wrestling with complex orchestration frameworks. Developers wrote elaborate state machines, predefined workflows, and extensive error-handling code to guide language models through multi-step tasks. We needed to build elaborate decision trees to handle…

  • Cloud Blog: Intelligent code conversion: Databricks Spark SQL to BigQuery SQL via Gemini

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/automate-sql-translation-databricks-to-bigquery-with-gemini/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Intelligent code conversion: Databricks Spark SQL to BigQuery SQL via Gemini Feedly Summary: As data platforms evolve and businesses diversify their cloud ecosystems, the need to migrate SQL workloads between engines is becoming increasingly common. Recently, I had the opportunity to work on translating a set of Databricks…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: GPT-5 has a hidden system prompt

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/15/gpt-5-has-a-hidden-system-prompt/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: GPT-5 has a hidden system prompt Feedly Summary: GPT-5 has a hidden system prompt It looks like GPT-5 when accessed via the OpenAI API may have its own hidden system prompt, independent from the system prompt you can specify in an API call. At the very least…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Frequently Asked Questions (And Answers) About AI Evals

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/3/faqs-about-ai-evals/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Frequently Asked Questions (And Answers) About AI Evals Feedly Summary: Frequently Asked Questions (And Answers) About AI Evals Hamel Husain and Shreya Shankar have been running a paid, cohort-based course on AI Evals For Engineers & PMs over the past few months. Here Hamel collects answers to…

  • Cloud Blog: How AI & IoT are helping detect hospital incidents — without compromising patient privacy

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/healthcare-life-sciences/detecting-hospital-incidents-with-ai-without-compromising-patient-privacy/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How AI & IoT are helping detect hospital incidents — without compromising patient privacy Feedly Summary: Hospitals, while vital for our well-being, can be sources of stress and uncertainty. What if we could make hospitals safer and more efficient — not only for patients but also for the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: How OpenElections Uses LLMs

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/19/how-openelections-uses-llms/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How OpenElections Uses LLMs Feedly Summary: How OpenElections Uses LLMs The OpenElections project collects detailed election data for the USA, all the way down to the precinct level. This is a surprisingly hard problem: while county and state-level results are widely available, precinct-level results are published in…

  • Scott Logic: Advice on transitioning from a legacy API

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    Source URL: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2025/05/28/advice-on-transitioning-from-a-legacy-api.html Source: Scott Logic Title: Advice on transitioning from a legacy API Feedly Summary: We have been helping a client migrate their trading platform to a new version of a third-party API. The migration is more interesting than usual for a number of reasons, so I thought it might be useful to share…