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Hands-on guides to AI infrastructure, MLOps, models, and shipping to production.
Wise Developer Workflow + Multi-Agent Development Teams
How a wise developer works a new project — brainstorm, discuss, prototype, diagram, propose, ADR, PR, GitOps — plus Review Bots and Workstation multi-agent teams.
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How a Wise Developer Works on a New Project
The wise path for a new project: brainstorm, teammate discussion, prototypes, diagrams, proposals, ADRs, small PRs with Review Bots, and GitOps for production-grade quality.
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Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore, SageMaker & Q: Agents in Microsoft Teams
Implement Amazon Bedrock, Bedrock AgentCore, SageMaker, and Amazon Q, then launch a first business agent in Microsoft Teams — with requirements, tooling, and time boxes.
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Kubeflow + Argo CD: GitOps MLOps on Kubernetes
Pair Kubeflow and Argo CD for MLOps on Kubernetes: train and register models in Kubeflow, promote InferenceServices with GitOps, roll back with git revert.
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Claude Models Compared: Haiku vs Sonnet vs Opus vs Fable 5 (Mythos 5)
Choose the right Claude model tier: Haiku for fast routing, Sonnet for daily work, Opus for complex agentic coding, and Fable 5 for long-horizon autonomy. Includes a token-budget router blueprint.
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Claude Fable 5: The Complete Guide to Anthropic's Mythos-Class Model
Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic's Mythos-class frontier model for long-horizon agents. Community reactions, YouTube reviews, when to use it, and how to save tokens.
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Large Language Models Explained: How LLMs Work and How to Run Your Own on Kubernetes
What are Large Language Models and how do they work? A clear, non-technical explainer for managers and engineers — tokens, embeddings, transformers, training and inference — plus production Kubernetes YAML to deploy your own LLM with Ollama and vLLM.
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Can an AI System Process and File a Self Assessment Tax Return to HMRC Automatically?
Can AI file UK Self Assessment to HMRC? FileMyTax shows bank PDF → extract → classify → calculate → MTD with a human gate. Built by Workstation for CognoAI. Not tax advice.
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Polyglot Benchmarks: Choosing the Right Tool for the Right Job
Stop default-stack bias. Polyglot Benchmarks compares njs, Lua, Python, Go, Rust, Bun, Java, and Kotlin on the same workloads — reproducible harness + live dashboard for architecture decisions.
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Building a VAT Return System with Claude Code from Your Invoices and Expenses Database
I rebuilt my quarterly UK VAT return as a Claude Code project: read invoices + expenses from Postgres, classify each line by VAT treatment, compute HMRC Box 1 to 9 with a deterministic Python engine, dry-run, then submit to MTD with a human approval gate.
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