I Suspected Jira Was Burning My AI Tokens. The Data Told a More Complicated Story

Over the past few months, I had watched the token usage in my AI development workflow creep upward. Some of that was expected. The codebase was growing, my agents had more instructions, and I was asking them to handle longer tasks. Still, the increase was large enough that I started examining every source of context. […]

Using Core Concepts of Computational Linguistics with RAG

A super colorful infographic ChatGPT created for this article. How linguistic fundamentals shape the design and performance of retrieval-augmented generation systems In a previous article, I discussed the core concepts of computational linguistics that every language model, big and small, needs to have. This article will discuss the core components of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) models, show […]