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An European flight-school SaaS rebuilt greenfield on AWS in 11 days, demoting a year of accumulated structural debt to a requirements document and an ETL source.
A production WhatsApp conversational assistant and scheduling automation for a flight school, where members check balances, buy hour packages, pay invoices, and submit weekly availability in Romanian or English - with the LLM explicitly kept out of every financial transaction.
Four products - a multilingual marketing site, an agentic AI sales concierge, a HubSpot-replacement CRM, and a post-sale customer portal - for a Swiss aircraft dealership, shipped as one Next.js app on one Postgres.
In a sweeping 6,000-word essay and a series of media interviews published today, Bill Gates warns that AI has blown past every major warning threshold the industry once pledged to respect - and proposes three concrete policy responses including "Human Reserved" jobs and a tax on AI tokens.
A new arXiv paper proposes Meta-Persona Anchoring combined with Filtered Temperature Scaling to combat the well-documented tendency of LLMs to converge on near-identical responses - even when temperature is cranked up to maximum.
A new arXiv paper introduces the CSE benchmark to study how LLM instruction-following collapses sharply - not gradually - as the number of simultaneous constraints grows, revealing a phase-transition structure with direct consequences for production AI systems.
LinkedIn published a paper detailing a production agentic support system that continuously rewrites its own prompts and retrieval strategy - with A/B test results showing a 30.6-point jump in routing accuracy and a 9-point gain in self-serve resolution.
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