Blogs to Follow

Posted by TopNo6605@reddit | LocalLLaMA | View on Reddit | 1 comments

I'm not in the AI space directly, but want to be aware of all the happenings in the industry without being overloaded with too-specific posts. For example, idk when RAG was first developed but that was a major development milestone (maybe this was around awhile?).

Any suggestions for blogs to follow that may give insights into new developments in the AI world in terms of new technology and software as it becomes available?

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No_Afternoon_4260@reddit

I'll ask you another question so you can feel as lost as I feel 😅

When was first developed ai "agents"? Was it this or this paper? Or is it the continuation of a natural evolution, before speaking about agents we "had" function calling. We were also trying to make the model's output parsable with various techniques and we wrote cursed parsers. Then the tool calling went into the llms api (in a openai compatible api), later we also had the publication of the MCP protocol by anthropic (for tools), then the concept of context engineering was borned (bc we understood prompt engineering is kind of dead/limited/not like we thought)...

The concept of "agent" as we know it in the llm space today is a combination of various pieces of techs and the performance gain of the llms. So hard to pinpoint a beginning for it.

Same for RAG, we are using embeddings model to embed data so we can do quick vector search at runtime (to retrieve important data for our ctx). There are cosine similarity, rankers and rerankers... Most of it predates reliable llms and are kind of their ancestors.