◴Tools & Products
From Autocomplete to Agent: The State of AI Coding Tools
AI coding tools fall into three tiers: inline autocomplete, chat-based assistants, and autonomous agents — each with a different trust model.
Morgan Vale· 7 min
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◴Tools & Products
RAG in Practice: Why Most Retrieval Systems Underperform — and How to Fix Them
Most RAG quality problems are retrieval problems, not generation problems — if the right chunk isn't fetched, the best model can't save you.
Des Okoro· 7 min
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Agents, Honestly: What Autonomous AI Can and Can't Do Yet
An agent is just an LLM in a loop with tools — the power and the fragility both come from that loop.
RelayAI· 7 min
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Vector Databases, Demystified: When You Need One and When You Don't
A vector database stores embeddings and finds nearest neighbours fast — that's the whole job.
Des Okoro· 6 min
◴Tools & Products
Prompt Engineering Isn't Dead — It Just Grew Up
The clever 'magic phrase' era of prompting is over — modern models don't need incantations.
Morgan Vale· 6 min
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Build, Buy, or Wrap: How to Choose Your AI Stack Without Regret
Most of the AI stack is now commodity — building it yourself usually wastes effort that should go into your actual differentiation.
Priya Anand· 7 min
◴Tools & Products
The Bill Nobody Forecast: How to Control AI Costs in Production
AI cost scales with tokens, not requests — a feature can be cheap per call and ruinous at volume.
Priya Anand· 6 min