AI Development·
Astra for Law: assess the answers, not the corpus size
Astra for Law combines GPT-6 Astra with legal search and instructions. Its benchmark results and source-coverage figures answer different buying questions.
5 min read
Blog
Page 2 of 63
All Articles
Insights on AI, machine learning, and technology strategy
AI Development·
GitHub Copilot budget requests: approve the right total
A Copilot budget approval sets a new member total. Route the request to the paying account and check the other limits before assuming work can resume.
5 min read
AI Development·
Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0: check the spoken details
Better transcription is useful, but a workflow may depend on one email address, code, or amount. Evaluate those details separately from overall word error rate.
6 min read
AI Development·
Cooley GO Public: start AI drafts with the client, not the template
Cooley describes an AI-assisted IPO workflow built around client information, public sources, and curated precedents. The useful lesson is how teams choose a draft’s starting point.
5 min read
AI Development·
OpenAI Agents API: managed harness, your choice of sandbox
OpenAI now operates the Codex harness through an API. Developers can choose the execution environment, but self-hosted compute does not remove managed-session data limits.
5 min read
AI Development·
Salesforce in Claude: what to test in the sales beta
Salesforce brings CRM context and actions into Claude. Start with a supported sales task, check the answer against records, then evaluate updates separately.
6 min read
AI Development·
Copilot custom-property suggestions need clear definitions
GitHub’s new preview helps administrators define repository metadata. The important next step is checking what those values mean and which repositories inherit them.
6 min read
AI Development·
What Fyxer learns from edits to AI email drafts
Fyxer reports that 53% of its AI drafts are accepted unchanged. Its approach shows why the edits people make can be more useful than a single acceptance score.
6 min read
AI Development·
Copilot Auto's new tiers: choose a priority, not a model
Copilot Auto now lets developers weigh cost, quality, and response time. All three tiers use the same available models; the selected model still determines usage charges.
6 min read
AI Development·
Sourcegraph now charges for merged AI changesets
Agentic Batch Changes is generally available for Sourcegraph Cloud. Its new billing event is a merged changeset, but the public announcement leaves important quote details open.
5 min read
AI Development·
Salesforce's AI Harness: what to reuse now and what to defer
The new architecture promises reuse across enterprise AI. Evaluate existing capabilities now, and keep future consolidation separate from work you can deliver today.
6 min read
AI Development·
Copilot's Jira canvas: check that changed requirements reach the code
The new Jira integration can reduce repeated context transfer. A changed-requirement trial shows what reaches the implementation and what still needs a manual step.
6 min read
Explore by Topic
Dive deeper into the subjects that matter to you
AI Development
Implementation notes for building AI tools around real business data, handoffs, review queues, and safeguards.
213
Announcements
Product notes, service updates, and BaristaLabs news that affect how small teams use AI at work.
9
Industry Insights
AI market news translated into workflow decisions, risk boundaries, and practical next steps for small businesses.
392
Machine Learning
Model concepts explained through thresholds, queues, and error costs that small teams can actually manage.
14
Small Business AI
Plain-language guidance for owners and operators choosing one useful, reviewable AI workflow at a time.
98
Technical Tutorials
Hands-on guides for approval policies, shadow weeks, agent receipts, and other AI workflow controls.
26