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Google Antigravity SDK Adds Local Model Support for Greater Token Efficiency and Code Privacy

Google has introduced support for local models in the Antigravity SDK, enabling developers to build and execute agentic workflows directly on their own machines, while retaining the flexibility to mix in cloud-based models for higher-level tasks. This approach gives developers greater control over data privacy, inference costs, network dependencies, and computational workload distribution. By…

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Best Clean Code and Refactoring Books, and the Order to Read Them

Clean Code was the first text I handed to my students. Since then I have read the six other books fighting for the "clean code" shelf, and they do not all say the same thing.

  • Start reading "The Pragmatic Programmer" for engaging stories and mental models
  • Follow with "Clean Code" by Robert C. Martin for timeless principles
  • Conclude with "Test-Driven Development: By Example" for TDD mindset

Ai2's Olmo-core 3 Keeps Every Expert on the GPU and Throughput Nearly Flat

TL;DR Olmo-core 3 is the open training framework the Allen Institute for AI builds its Olmo language models with, released as source code under the Apache 2.0 licence with a technical report beside…

  • Olmo-core 3 replaces fully sharded data parallelism with distributed data parallelism.
  • Throughput increases by roughly 2.7 times with Olmo-core 3 compared to previous implementation.

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