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In this article, you will learn what the major AI agent benchmarks measure, how they differ from traditional model benchmarks, and how to use them…
Llama 3 is a capable generalist, but that’s exactly the problem when you need an agent that reliably outputs structured JSON for a specific API.
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Theory is easier to trust once it’s running against a real API, so both examples in this article use the same tool — a get_weather function backed by
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In this article, you will learn what embedding drift is, why it matters for production large language models, and how to implement two practical techniques…
Scalar defaults work the way you’d expect, and batch_size: int = 500 is all you need.