New blog on why a Context Layer is critical AI infrastructure, and announcing Embabel Worlds: an evolving knowledge graph that understands your business.

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Gartner cites AI context platforms among the top strategic technology trends.

"Gartner predicts that by 2027, organizations that prioritize semantics in AI-ready data will increase agentic AI accuracy by up to 80% and reduce costs by up to 60%."

We agree
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Great piece @iRomin. Google Knowledge Catalog is a nice option for the meaning layer, and we're adding an integration to Embabel Worlds.

Interested in an Embabel version of Chai & Co, with the same Google services underneath?

"Code mode" is the future. LLMs should write programs vs call many individual tools. Saves context, builds on their training on huge amounts of code, and is a better way to expose business understanding

Next question: what language should LLMs code in?

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Cypher is great. It's awesome for grounding LLM responses.

What if it was much bigger than a single database, and you could query anything with it? With Embabel Worlds, you can. Today.

New blog about the technical choices in our context layer.

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I'm getting back into regular blogging since we released Embabel Worlds, and really enjoying writing 100% of the words myself. No AI except for research.

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New blog on how to make vibe coding work. TLDR; Don't vibe code the whole stack, but built on solid ground.

Everyone can finally make and work within their own apps, and it doesn't need to be dangerous.

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The present industry fascination with FDEs is strange.

The consultant->FDE rebranding was brilliant from a marketing perspective. Less so for customers or the wider industry.

Are we really back in the 1990s?

New blog:

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Vibe coding can help users build great things without code.

But it only works over infrastructure that ensures that apps are deployable, secure, validated, safe and efficient.

Embabel Worlds lets users build safely over their knowledge graphs: medium.com/@springrod/a-n…

Code mode is the future of tool calling, allowing LLMs to write programs vs call individual tools.

The challenge is to make it safe, through curation, approvals and sandboxing.

One role of a context layer is to provide a surface LLMs can code against.

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Anthropic would have us believe that AI might soon be able to end humanity. Meanwhile, we wait for Claude Code to provide a sane way to copy to the clipboard.

Jev is yet more proof that no organization should outsource its AI strategy to a frontier LLM vendor or company that wants to sell tokens

LLMs are great, BUT

- Open weights models are capable of more & more tasks
- AI > Gen AI. You don't always need an LLM

@JamesWard @jtdavies

We live in a time when products can talk to you to help you learn how to use them. The fact that nearly every enterprise AI product is "call sales for a demo" is a massive product red flag, and helps explain why most enterprise AI fails. This is not the 1990s

So not only is Opus 5 a clear regression compared to Opus 4.8, which was itself far more annoying than its predecessors, but in recent days, context compaction has started totally losing the thread.

Anybody else seeing occasional Chinese characters mixed into Claude model output? This was from Fable:

View YAML syntax and app serving路径

Watching an interview with Anders Hjelsberg. Very impressive. Sharp, clear, pragmatic, to the point. Nothing load bearing; no seams; no performative honesty or unlocks.

A reminder that smart humans can achieve a clarity of communication we're increasingly missing. @ahejlsberg

Your regular reminder that Embabel's structure-aware, agentic RAG goes well beyond naive vector search, and is easily extensible to handle custom sources.

See how easy it is to add quality RAG to your JVM apps!

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@java #embabel

Nice to see the uptick in star count since Embabel went GA

Remember to star Embabel and the other open source projects you use! One of the easiest of the many ways you can contribute.

Open source community is an amazing thing

@java @springboot

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Embabel 1.5.0 has just gone GA, supporting Spring Boot 4.x/Spring AI 2.x

Embabel 1.0 supports Boot 3.x

Whatever your Spring version, you can use our sophisticated workflows, agentic RAG and beautiful fluent API!

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@java @springboot @SpringAICentral

Vibe coding UIs can be amazing.

Vibe coding infrastructure software is a recipe for unmaintainable, duplicative, buggy disaster. Agents can accelerate enormously, but must be closely managed.

Good software layering is more important than ever.