🧠 The Machine Learning Engineer’s Checklist

🦾Plus: 🗓️ ChatGPT launches “Your Year with ChatGPT”

December 23, 2025

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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?

  • 🏢Top 20 Hadoop Technology Companies

  • đź”®12 Predictions for 2026

  • 🚀Open-source GLM 4.7 outperforms GPT 5.1 and Claude Sonnet 4.5

  • 🧩AI Agent with One Endless Chat and Self-Managing Memory

  • 🔌 Alphabet buys Intersect Power for $4.75B

  • đź’ˇ AI Tutorial:Make Claude Code smarter with the Context7 MCP

  • 🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout

Building newly trained machine learning models that work is a relatively straightforward endeavor, thanks to mature frameworks and accessible computing power. Without further ado, here is the list of 10 machine learning engineer best practices I curated for you and your upcoming models to shine at their best in terms of long-term reliability.

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Hadoop, a platform developed by The Apache Software Foundation, is a popular open-source Big Data platform for distributed processing of large datasets across clusters of computers. Each system in Apache Hadoop acts as a storage device and as a computation platform.

Every year I make a list of predictions & score last year’s predictions. 2025 was a good year : I scored 7.85 out of 10. I will release the scoring tomorrow. For today, here are my predictions for 2026 :

China's Z.ai just dropped GLM-4.7, their latest open-source coding model, surpassing GLM-4.6 with substantial improvements in coding, complex reasoning, and tool usage, setting new open-source SOTA standards (73.8% on SWE-bench Verified and 66.7% on SWE-bench Multilingual). The model comes with "preserved thinking" that maintains reasoning context across multi-turn conversations instead of starting from scratch each time.

MIRA is an open-source framework that treats the inability to start fresh as a design feature, not a limitation. Memories extract themselves from conversations and decay through formulas based on usage patterns; frequently accessed information persists while stale data fades.

👨‍💻 Data Tools, Libraries

C1 by Thesys - Turn n8n workflows into intelligent AI apps. From chatbots to AI agents for research, analytics or automation, no coding and no changes to your workflow logic. Thesys is the UI your n8n workflows have been missing.

Bloom - Open-source agentic framework by Anthropic that automatically generates behavioral evaluation suites for AI models by taking a specified behavior and creating diverse test scenarios to measure its frequency and severity.

Largemem - A collaborative knowledge base that ingests documents, audio, and URLs into a searchable corpus for AI.

Nia - Context layer that provides agents with up-to-date, continuously monitored context from libraries, research papers, and technical documentation, saving you hours of manual ingestion.

AI News:

OpenAI has introduced a feature called “Your Year with ChatGPT,” a personalized year-end review inspired by Spotify Wrapped, available to users in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The experience is available to non-paying, Plus, and Pro users who have chat history and memory enabled, offering playful “awards” based on usage patterns and generating a custom poem and image summarizing each user’s year.

The Future of Shopping? AI + Actual Humans.

AI has changed how consumers shop by speeding up research. But one thing hasn’t changed: shoppers still trust people more than AI.

Levanta’s new Affiliate 3.0 Consumer Report reveals a major shift in how shoppers blend AI tools with human influence. Consumers use AI to explore options, but when it comes time to buy, they still turn to creators, communities, and real experiences to validate their decisions.

The data shows:

  • Only 10% of shoppers buy through AI-recommended links

  • 87% discover products through creators, blogs, or communities they trust

  • Human sources like reviews and creators rank higher in trust than AI recommendations

The most effective brands are combining AI discovery with authentic human influence to drive measurable conversions.

Affiliate marketing isn’t being replaced by AI, it’s being amplified by it.

Alphabet will acquire Intersect Power, a data center and clean energy developer, for $4.75B plus debt assumption, giving Google direct control over clean energy infrastructure as model training power needs grow. The acquisition builds on Alphabet's existing minority stake from an $800M funding round last December, targeting $20B in total commitment by 2030.

Instacart has halted its AI-driven pricing tests after a joint report from Consumer Reports and Groundwork Collaborative revealed that shoppers were being charged different prices for identical items. The study tracked over 400 customers and found price gaps as high as 23% for the same products purchased from the same store on the same day.

The year 2025 is set to be a milestone for advanced robotics as manufacturers worldwide unveil state-of-the-art humanoid robots. From Tesla’s versatile Optimus Gen 2 to Engineered Arts’ lifelike Ameca, these innovations span a range of applications—from industrial automation to social interaction.

YouTube Gaming announced Playables Builder, a prototype web app that allows select creators to make bite-sized games using short text, video, or image prompts. Powered by Gemini 3, Creators can describe a game idea in a few lines and convert it into a working, playable experience that can be shared with their audience.

AI Tutorial

🤓 Make Claude Code smarter with the Context7 MCP

Learn how to give Claude Code the context it needs to make far fewer mistakes and successfully pull the latest coding documentation instantly by connecting it to the Context7 MCP.

Step-by-step:

  1. Create a new project folder in Cursor, open a new terminal, type “Claude” to start Claude Code, then open a second terminal for your Context7 install script

  2. Create a free Context7 account, click the “Claude Code” tab, copy the “Remote” installation script, create an API key, and paste it where it says YOUR_API_KEY

  3. Paste the installation script into your regular terminal (not Claude Code), then create a Claude.md file with rules: “Always use context7 when I need code generation, setup, configuration steps, or library/API documentation” — specify doc sources like <https://pokeapi.co/docs/v2>

  4. Test Context7 by sending a planning prompt: “Build a simple html site that creates random teams of 6 pokemon with lock/reshuffle features using pokapi docs” — approve tool use and select “Yes, and never ask again for Context7”

Pro tip: Hit ctrl+o in a Claude Code terminal to see its full thoughts. It’s good practice to understand how it thinks.

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