RT Avi Chawla (@_avichawla)RAG is a distraction!Here's how Google and Microsoft actually give context to their production agents:To understand this, think about what "give an agent context" actually means in production.In production, data lives across Slack, Gmail, Jira, Drive, Salesforce, GitHub, and SQL databases. Each source has different auth, different data formats, different update cycles.A query like "summarize all activity on the auth migration this week" needs to pull from five sources simultaneous ...

RAG is a distraction!Here's how Google and Microsoft actually give context to their production agents:To understand this, think about what "give an agent context" actually means in production.In production, data lives across Slack, Gmail, Jira, Drive, Salesforce, GitHub, and SQL databases. Each source has different auth, different data formats, different update cycles.A query like "summarize all activity on the auth migration this week" needs to pull from five sources simultaneously, filter by time, check p ...

RT Avi Chawla (@_avichawla)16 best GitHub repos to build AI engineering projects!(star + bookmark them):The open-source AI ecosystem has 4.3M+ repos now.New repos blow up every month, and the tools developers build with today look nothing like what we had a year ago.I put together a visual covering the 16 repos that make up the modern AI developer toolkit right now.The goal was to cover key layers of the stack:1) OpenClaw↳ Personal AI agent that runs on your devices and connects to 50+ messaging platforms2) ...

16 best GitHub repos to build AI engineering projects!(star + bookmark them):The open-source AI ecosystem has 4.3M+ repos now.New repos blow up every month, and the tools developers build with today look nothing like what we had a year ago.I put together a visual covering the 16 repos that make up the modern AI developer toolkit right now.The goal was to cover key layers of the stack:1) OpenClaw↳ Personal AI agent that runs on your devices and connects to 50+ messaging platforms2) AutoGPT↳ Platform for buil ...

Core Insights - Fiscal 2025 was challenging, but decisive actions have positioned the company for future growth, with first quarter net sales and adjusted EBITDA exceeding expectations despite ongoing headwinds [1][2] - The company is optimistic about the recovery in consumables, particularly in the global pet care business, which has returned to growth [4][44] - The overall financial results indicate that the company is on track to achieve its growth objectives for fiscal 2026, with expectations for net sales and adjusted EBITDA to show improvement [40][46] Financial Performance - First quarter net sales decreased by 3.3%, with organic net sales down 6%, primarily due to softness in the home and personal care business [16] - Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was $62.6 million, a decrease of $15.2 million driven by lower volume and reduced gross margins [18] - The company generated nearly $660 million of adjusted free cash flow in the first quarter and repurchased approximately 600,000 shares [5][6] Business Unit Performance - The global pet care business reported an 8.3% increase in net sales, with organic net sales up 5.8%, driven by strong performance in companion animal categories [20][21] - Home and garden business net sales decreased by 19.8%, but the company expects sales to pick up as the season unfolds, with early indications of strong POS trends [27][29] - Home and personal care business saw a reported net sales decrease of 7.6%, with organic net sales down 11.1%, but there are signs of recovery in core markets [32][34] Strategic Initiatives - The company is focused on maintaining a healthy balance sheet and optimizing working capital, ending the first quarter with nearly $127 million in cash and a net leverage of 1.65 turns [9][12] - Strategic priorities for fiscal 2026 include investing in people, operational excellence, and transformation, with a focus on fewer, bigger, better initiatives [7][11] - The company is committed to disciplined expense management and is optimistic about the evolving M&A landscape, particularly in the global pet care and home and garden sectors [46][44] Market Outlook - The company expects net sales growth in the home and garden business to occur in the second half of the fiscal year, with anticipated improvements in consumer demand [41][39] - Adjusted EBITDA is expected to grow in low single digits, driven by the return to sales growth in the global pet care and home and garden businesses [40][46] - The company remains cautious about the home and personal care business, expecting continued softness in consumer demand in the near term [39][57]

You are in an AI engineer interview at Google.The interviewer asks:"Our data is spread across several sources (Gmail, Drive, etc.)How would you build a unified query engine over it?"You: "I'll embed everything in a vector DB and do RAG."Interview over!Here's what you missed:Devs treat context retrieval like a weekend project.Their mental model is simple: "Just embed the data, store them in vector DB, and call it a day."This works beautifully for static sources.But the problem is that no real-world workflow ...

Technology & Innovation - Airweave addresses the limitations of RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) in handling real-time data [1] - Airweave constructs live, bi-temporal knowledge bases to ensure agents utilize the most up-to-date information [1] - The system supports comprehensive agentic retrieval, incorporating semantic and keyword search, query expansion, and integration across 30+ sources [1] - Airweave is 100% open-source [1]