http://programmer.ie/tags/model-management/ Recent content in Model Management on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:45:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/browser-ai-from-first-principles/12-chapter/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:45:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/browser-ai-from-first-principles/12-chapter/ <p>The central promise of built-in AI is an abstraction boundary:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-text" data-lang="text"><span style="display:flex;"><span>application </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> ↓ </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>browser AI API </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> ↓ </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>browser-managed runtime </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> ↓ </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>current model and execution strategy </span></span></code></pre></div><p>The application asks for a capability. The browser chooses how to provide it.</p> <p>That separation is powerful, but it does not make the lower layers irrelevant. Changes beneath the API can alter availability, accepted options, performance and behavior.</p> <p>We encountered that fact before completing our first prompt experiment.</p>