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  1. Given that coding agents like Claude Code or Codex are now quite good, there's of course a massive increase in PRs submitted to open source projects. Not all of them are great, some are true AI slop. See for example…

  2. We often debate "can humans trust AI?" An equally important question: can AI trust humans?

  3. Shadow AI = Shadow IT 2.0 Large companies implementing generative AI are experiencing the re-emergence of all the issues and headaches we know well and remember, that were associated with "shadow IT". This time, applied…

  4. AI assistants and agents have huge potential - I've developed a Python package that helps developers build simple Agentic RAG applications using Vectara (I work there), and using LlamaIndex. This is in beta and I would…

  5. I've been working on a Python package to enable Agentic RAG with Vectara (disclosure: I work there). It uses LlamaIndex behind the scenes, and provides a quick and easy way to build Agentic RAG assistants. I hope you…

  6. I'm happy to share my short course about embedding models - what they are, how train them and their use in RAG. Would love to hear any feedback or suggestions to improve the course materials.

  7. I love HN but always felt the search with algolia is okay but does have some limitations. Since I work at Vectara I decided to try and create a better search for HN. It's based on data from roughly the last 6 months of…

  8. Curious to hear from the HN community - what is the impact of ChatGPT and LLM applications on how we need to build user interfaces for future applications?

  9. RAG seems to be the winning methodology for building Chat-with-your-data applications. HakcerNews: what do you find to be the most challenging issue when migrating RAG applications from simple prototypes to enterprise…

  10. Hey Hackernews, I'm Ofer, head of developer relations at Vectara. Some of us read a lot of articles on the web, like those on HN, and it seems useful to be able to search the contents of the text we read (using semantic…