Ankur Kotwal

With these models, the Gemini 2.5 models continue to push the pareto frontier. More details at the launch blog post at developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-2-...

🔦 Introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite! This new model boasts the lowest latency in the Gemini 2.5 family, is highly cost-efficient, and outperforms Gemini 2.0 Flash. It also supports thinking and tool use.

⚡️ Also generally available: Gemini 2.5 Flash! We've simplified its pricing structure for thinking/non-thinking and consistent rates across all input token sizes. Flash now supports supervised fine-tuning, allowing you to tailor the model specifically for your data.

✨ Gemini 2.5 Pro is now generally available! This model is ideal for coding and complex tasks. It's the same great model as `2.5-pro-preview-06-05`, making it a seamless drop-in replacement for your existing projects.

📢 I’m thrilled that the new Gemini 2.5 models are here! Developers can get started building production apps right away. 🧵 for more details

Generative AI in practice: Concrete LLM use cases in Java, with the PaLM API Large language models (LLMs) are a powerful new technology that can be used for a variety of tasks, including generating text, translating languages, and writing different kinds of creative content. H...

Thanks to everyone who attended my talk yesterday at @devoxx about #GenerativeAI, #LLMs, using #Java, but also @langchain4j, with #googlecloud Vertex AI's #PaLM API

Here are the slides I presented:
speakerdeck.com/glaforge/gen...

"The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023"

tonsky.me/blog/unicode/

Extensive article covering: unicode code points, grapheme clusters, encoding (UTF-8/16/32), character normalisation

Substring, comparing, measuring strings is really tricky!

"7 factors that impact developer productivity" by Suraj Vishwakarma is a good read. Devs don't spend the majority of their time coding so when you're next thinking about how to be a more productive coder, consider this. https://dev.to/surajondev/top-7-things-that-kill-developer-productivity-ef9

I'm really sad to read about Bram Moolenaar’s passing. I've spent countless hours of my professional and personal life using #Vim. I also admired how charitable Bram was, with his work in Uganda. Thank you for everything you did Bram!
https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/tWahca9zkt4?pli=1

It’s great to see Go continue to evolve.