Thomas Wiegold

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Building Reliable Invoice Extraction Prompts That Handle Edge Cases

Learn how to craft LLM prompts for invoice extraction that handle messy scans, edge cases, and human error—with confidence signals and real-world testing strategies.

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AI for Small Business: 7 Use Cases That Actually Work

55% of small businesses now use AI, but most don't know where to start. Here are the proven use cases delivering real ROI—no massive budget required.

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Do LLMs Actually Understand Code? The Evidence

Do LLMs truly understand code or just match patterns? 2024-25 research reveals a surprising paradox—and what it means for your development workflow.

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Gemini 3 Flash: Why Google's Budget Model Is My New Default

Google's Gemini 3 Flash beats GPT-5.2 benchmarks at 3.5x lower cost. Here's why this workhorse model changes the economics of AI in production apps.

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JetBrains Shuts Down Fleet, Bets Everything on Agentic AI with Air

JetBrains kills Fleet after 4 years in preview. Its replacement, Air, wants you to stop coding and start supervising AI agents instead. Here's what happened.

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Claude API Memory Tool: Build Agents That Learn

Claude's Memory Tool lets your AI agents retain knowledge across sessions. Learn how to implement persistent memory without building your own solution.

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Claude Opus 4.5 Review: Anthropic's New Coding Model Breaks Records

Claude Opus 4.5 achieves 80.9% on SWE-bench with 67% lower costs. Hands-on review of the new effort parameter, token efficiency, and real coding performance.

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Google Gemini 3 Hits #1 on LMArena: A Developer's Honest First Impressions

Gemini 3 Pro hits #1 on LMArena with 1501 Elo. A developer's honest first impressions and testing plan vs Claude Sonnet 4.5 for real coding work.

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Claude API Structured Output: Complete Guide to Schema-Guaranteed Responses

Claude API structured output uses constrained decoding to guarantee JSON schema compliance. Learn implementation, best practices, and production gotchas.

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