The 90-Day Plan to Become AI-Native When You Don’t Have a Transformation Budget

Stop Telling Your AI What Format You Want. Start Writing It.

You ask the model for a JSON object. Your parser gets this: Certainly! Here's the JSON you asked for: {"severity": "high", "summary": "Login fails after password reset"} Let me know if you'd like me…

• Seed desired format directly into model's response to avoid extraneous phrases.
• Utilize API features like structured output or JSON mode for better control.
• Implement validation to ensure generated output conforms to specified format.

3h ago ·dev.to

Salesforce acquires Rune, which makes AI military logistics software, sources say for $375M in cash and stock; Rune raised $30m from a16z and others (Margaux MacColl/Resilience Media)

Salesforce is acquiring defence tech startup Rune Technologies for $375 million in a combination of shares and cash, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

4h ago ·resiliencemedia.co

Stop Using LLMs Like Search Engines

Most devs use modern language models wrong. They open a chat window, paste an error stack trace, and wait for a magic snippet. When it works, they celebrate.

• LLMs are spatial compressors of human text, not search engines.
• Treating LLMs like APIs requires explicit architectural constraints and data types.
• Building domain-specific wrappers with internal documentation improves results.

3h ago ·dev.to

Semantic Caching and Live Internet Search: Tools That Let AI Cache Answers to Save Money, and Pull Data From the Web When It Needs To

Say you open the logs of your chat system and they are full of questions like these: "How do I change my password?" "Forgot my password, what do I do?" "Where do I reset my password?" All three mean…

• Semantic caching saves costs by remembering answers to similar questions.
• Live internet search provides real-time data when needed.
• Two methods work together with a sorting step to determine appropriate approach.

3h ago ·dev.to