Author: Robbie
Building an Eval Harness for Your AI Features
"It looks good" is not a test. Learn how to build a lightweight evaluation loop that catches prompt regressions, model drift, and…
Structured Outputs and Tool Use: Making LLMs Reliable
Learn how to force valid JSON and well-typed tool calls from Claude so AI output plugs directly into your code, eliminating the…
Cutting LLM Costs with Prompt Caching and Smart Context Management
Prompt caching can dramatically reduce your token spend, but only if your prompts are structured correctly. Here is how prefix-matching works, what…
Choosing the Right Claude Model: Speed, Cost, and Capability Trade-offs
Not every task needs your most powerful model. This guide gives you a practical decision framework for matching Claude model tiers to…
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): A Practical Build Guide
Learn how to ground an LLM in your own documents using chunking, embeddings, and vector retrieval, so your app returns accurate answers…
Prompt Engineering Patterns That Actually Work
A handful of battle-tested techniques separate prompts that work once from ones you can ship to production. Here is how to use…
Build Your First MCP Server: A Hands-On Guide
Learn how to stand up a Model Context Protocol server, expose a custom tool, and wire it to a Claude-powered client so…
Model Context Protocol (MCP): Connecting AI to Your Tools
MCP is the open standard that lets AI models talk to your databases, APIs, and services. Here is what it is, how…
Writing Custom Skills to Extend Your AI Coding Assistant
Reusable, file-based skills let you encode your team's workflows and best practices directly into an AI agent, so it stops making the…
Getting Started with Claude Code: Setup and Your First Session
A practical walkthrough of installing Anthropic's agentic coding CLI, configuring it correctly, and building the habits that make AI pair-programming genuinely useful…
Android Expands Theft Protection with Smarter Locks and Default-On Safeguards
Google has rolled out a suite of Android theft protection updates, tightening authentication controls, extending Identity Check coverage to third-party apps, and…
Project Zero Details Exploitation of macOS CoreAudio Type Confusion Bug
Google Project Zero has published a deep technical walkthrough on exploiting CVE-2024-54529, a type confusion vulnerability in the macOS coreaudiod daemon, revealing…