AI Native Foundation Weekly Newsletter: 29 April 2025
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Gemini 2.5 Flash: First Hybrid Reasoning Model with Thinking Controls
Gemini 2.5 Flash brings a major upgrade in reasoning capabilities while maintaining speed and cost efficiency. This innovative model allows developers to enable/disable thinking or set specific thinking budgets (0-24576 tokens) to balance quality, cost, and latency. Even with thinking off, it outperforms 2.0 Flash while ranking second only to 2.5 Pro on Hard Prompts in LMArena. Now available in preview via Google AI Studio and Vertex AI.
Claude Code: 6 Essential Practices for Developer Success
Discover proven strategies for using Claude Code, Anthropic’s agentic coding tool that dramatically streamlines workflows. Learn to customize your environment with CLAUDE.md files, leverage powerful workflows like test-driven development, use headless mode for CI automation, reduce onboarding time with codebase Q&A, and run multiple Claude instances for parallel tasks. These battle-tested practices from Anthropic’s engineering team will help you create flexible, customizable, and safe solutions that elevate your coding experience.