KDnuggets published a cheat sheet on managing local language models with Ollama, the tool that pulls model weights, runs an HTTP server on port 11434, and exposes an OpenAI-shaped endpoint on the user…
Sorting support tickets by token length before batching, rather than looping item by item, is the third and final optimization in a KDnuggets series on small language model (SLM) narrow automation, wi…
Tool calling and code execution are the two action primitives for AI agents, and choosing between them is an architectural decision with measurable cost, latency, and accuracy consequences, according …
DeepSeek open-sourced an agent runtime called DeepSeek Harness (CLI name `dsh`) on August 13, 2026, and the GitHub repository passed 186,000 stars with over 20,000 forks within ten days, according to …
A second article in a KDnuggets series on small language model (SLM) optimization details reusing the prompt prefix with a key-value cache to cut per-item pre-fill costs, benchmarked on Qwen2.5-0.5B-I…
KDnuggets published a cheat sheet on Scikit-LLM, a library that wraps language models in the scikit-learn estimator API so they drop natively into a Pipeline or cross-validation loop. The cheat sheet …
In an experiment with three small datasets, OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-5.6 Luna models made repeated data-analysis errors, including approving a backwards conclusion and inventing a correction tha…
A practical guide from an unnamed author outlines a four-layer framework for building productive local AI stacks with small language models (1B–14B parameters), naming Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, an…
Small language models (SLMs) ranging from 1 billion to 13 billion parameters now run on consumer hardware, offering privacy, cost predictability, and lower latency compared to cloud APIs. A practical …
KDnuggets has released a free ebook, "Understanding Agentic AI: An Executive Briefing," aimed at CEOs, CTOs, CIOs, and technology executives, to explain the core components of agentic AI systems. The …
KDnuggets' weekly roundup for July 27-31, 2026, features articles on building and deploying autonomous agents, with a focus on using frameworks like LangGraph for stateful checkpointing and defining c…
KDnuggets' weekly roundup for July 20, 2026, features top MCP servers for agentic development, a free 5-day Agentic AI course from Kaggle and Google, and GraphEval for hallucination evaluation. The ro…
KDnuggets' weekly roundup for July 13, 2026, features articles on Python design patterns, LLM optimization, SQL portfolio projects, Git worktrees for AI development, structured generation with Outline…
A KDnuggets article lists 10 YouTube channels for AI engineers, organized into categories covering research, practical building, core concepts, and industry analysis. Featured channels include Two Min…
Developers can optimize spaCy's text processing speed by selectively disabling pipeline components like the dependency parser and lemmatizer when only named entity recognition is needed. The technique…
Python developers can now use type hinting and MyPy static analysis to catch type errors before runtime, reducing production crashes. The typing module allows developers to annotate variable types and…