Sara Zan

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✨ GenAI expert | 🐍 Python coder | πŸͺ Sci-fi reader | πŸ‡­πŸ‡Ί Studying weird languages | zansara.dev
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#LLMs don't always respond the same way to slight prompt changes. But why does the answer change when the prompt is identical?
In this post I explain why it's nearly impossible to make an #LLM deterministic and what you can do to manage its randomness.

https://www.zansara.dev/posts/2026-03-24-temp-0-llm/

#GenAI #AI

Setting the temperature to zero will make an LLM deterministic?

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It's becoming more and more common for agents to skip embedding search entirely. It seems like they do just fine with grep, find and other command-line tools!

How is that possible? Is an agent equipped with a few keyword-search tools really able to outperform a vector DB?

Let's find out.

https://www.zansara.dev/posts/2026-03-15-vector-dbs-vs-grep/

#AI #AIAgents #Embeddings

Is grep really better than a vector DB?

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The 17th edition of Warsaw IT Days is happening in less than a month! In addition to my talk, you can also enjoy over 300 lectures across 25 different thematic tracks. Do you already have your ticket for the online or in-person days? If not, now you can use the dedicated discount code and buy the Standard and Exec tickets 20% cheaper: WID26SP20
See you soon!

More information and registration at: https://warszawskiedniinformatyki.pl/en/

🐟 Your agent can be phished, just like a human can. Do you know how that happens?

In this post I go through all the steps I showed during the talk and offer some advice to protect your agents from this class of attacks. Stay safe!

#AIAgent #Phishing

https://www.zansara.dev/posts/2026-03-04-phishing-ai-agents/

Phishing AI Agents

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πŸ’¬ Are you interested in practical AI and would like to share your own experiences with a talk? @mindstonehq is always looking for new speakers. Submit a proposal here: https://community-admin.mindstone.com/interest and join the community!
🎣 Your #AI agent can be phished, just like a human can. At a @mindstonehq meetup, I ran a live demo: an #AIAgent powered by #GPT 5.2 that can only make GET requests, was tricked into leaking API keys. How did that happen?! https://www.zansara.dev/talks/2026-02-25-mindstone-lisbon-meetup/ - https://community.mindstone.com/annotate/article_B3qZVBLeehDkqDzhj7

πŸ“’ Excited to be speaking at Mindstone's Lisbon meetup tomorrow!

https://community.mindstone.com/events/lisbon_ai_meetup_2025_02

#GenAI #AI #AIAgents

Lisbon AI Meetup

Welcome to the most electrifying and ground-breaking AI Meetup in Lisbon! Join us as we delve into the world of artificial intelligence, explore its cutting-ed

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If LLMs are stateless, how can they remember what the user told them in the past? Let’s have a look at the most common implementations of LLM memory, from simple chat history management to RAG-based approaches.

https://www.zansara.dev/posts/2026-02-04-how-does-llm-memory-work/

#LLMs #GenAI #AI #RAG #ContextEngineering #ContextWindow

How does LLM memory work?

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‼️ Did you miss my workshop ad the Agentic AI Summit (https://summit.ai), or have more questions to ask? Post your questions here and I'll do my best to answer them all πŸ€—

Here are all the resources for the workshop:

- Interactive notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1YVN5GrmZMM7qpI-dbeV-HIYig9XoSk6W?usp=drive_link

- Presentation: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1W3OsRSGxntPRnMFweY-LwU_qVWXsp-RW?usp=drive_link

- Blog post: https://www.zansara.dev/posts/2026-01-07-from-rag-to-ai-agent/

As usual, stay tuned for more talks πŸ“£

#LLMs #RAG #AIAgent #GenAI #AgenticAI

Do you also use #Colab for workshops and tutorials on #LLMs? Today I decided to write a small widget to make my next talk more interactive: a very simple chat UI that lives in the output cell without blocking the notebook's execution.

Check it out: https://github.com/ZanSara/jupyter-chat-widget