By Venkata Anirudh Devireddy · Endoblog.dev They're used interchangeably a lot, but they shouldn't be. The difference between an agent and an assistant tells you about what kind of actions it can perform. An assistant responds. An agent acts. Assistants just respond to your questions. If
By Venkata Anirudh Devireddy · Endoblog.dev There used to be a clear line between the best closed models and the best open weight models. However, the gap between these two categories is starting to shrink, which is something every AI developer should be aware of. What "open weight"
By Venkata Anirudh Devireddy · Endoblog.dev AI browsers went from a novelty to something several companies in the industry are shipping this year alone. So worth understanding what they can do for you. The basic idea of AI browsers is that the browser will show you the website you want
People often say that artificial intelligence killed entry-level developer jobs. While this is true to a certain extent, it's not the complete picture. The numbers For developers between the ages of 22 and 25, there has been a near 20% decrease in the number of available jobs
By Venkata Anirudh Devireddy · Endoblog.dev I've sent over fifty cold emails to professors and startup founders. Most got ignored. Some got replies. A few turned into actual research affiliations. Here is what separated the two groups. Read something they wrote first Most emails to professors read the
By Venkata Anirudh Devireddy · Endoblog.dev Every student has had the same moment. You write something yourself, run it through Turnitin out of paranoia, and it comes back flagged as partially AI generated. You didn't use AI. The tool is wrong. And there's no clean way
By Venkata Anirudh Devireddy · Endoblog.dev A lot of students assume a perfect GPA and a high test score is what gets you into a competitive CS program. Those numbers get you past the first filter. They don't get you the offer. Here's what I'
By Venkata Anirudh Devireddy · Endoblog.dev People throw around the term "AI assistant" for almost anything now. A chatbot is called an assistant. A code autocomplete tool is called an assistant. But most of these tools only exist when you're actively talking to them. Close the
By Venkata Anirudh Devireddy · Endoblog.dev Open source sounds intimidating from the outside. Massive codebases, experienced maintainers, pull requests that get picked apart in review. Most students never try because it feels like something you need to already be good enough for. That's backwards. Contributing is how you
By Venkata Anirudh Devireddy · Endoblog.dev Most people's experience with AI models goes through a browser or an app. You type something, it goes to a server somewhere, a response comes back. That's the default. But there's a whole other category of AI that
By Venkata Anirudh Devireddy · Endoblog.dev If you've been anywhere near the developer side of Twitter or Reddit lately, you've probably seen Claude Code come up. People are calling it a game changer. Some are saying it's the most useful AI tool they'
If you've used ChatGPT, Claude, or any large language model, you've probably seen the word "tokens" come up, on pricing pages, in rate limit errors, or in API docs. But what actually is a token? And why should you care? Understanding tokens isn'