AI Guides
Practical AI guides, tutorials and workflows for developers, creators and everyday users.
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Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM and 9 More: Which Local LLM Tools Are Still Maintained? (October 2026)
We compared a year of GitHub activity for 12 tools that run language models on your own hardware. Hugging Face's TGI is in maintenance mode, GPT4All hasn't changed since May 2025, and Open WebUI's licence has a clause worth reading.
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Which RAG Frameworks and Vector Databases Are Still Maintained? We Checked 14 GitHub Repos (October 2026)
We compared a year of commit history for LlamaIndex, LangChain, Haystack, RAGFlow, LightRAG, GraphRAG, DSPy, txtai, Chroma, Qdrant, Milvus, Weaviate, LanceDB and pgvector. Three have changed course in ways most guides haven't caught.
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AI Agent Infrastructure Explained: MCP, Payments, Security & Middleware
AI agent infrastructure explained: how MCP, permissions, payments, security, verification and middleware connect autonomous agents to real-world services.
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System 1 vs System 2 AI Agents: Architecture, Guardrails & Use Cases
System 1 vs System 2 AI agents explained: compare bounded decisions, autonomous planning, guardrails and hybrid architectures for real applications.
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Claude Code Mods Explained: How Programmable Mods Work
Claude Code Mods explained: how TypeScript mods can change tool calls, permissions, prompts and UI, plus what developers can build with them.
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AI Coding Agents in 2026: What the Evidence Says and How to Use Them Well
AI coding agents are now part of how real software gets built. What the research says about speed, what 23,000 real commits show, where agents fail, and the workflow that works.
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Claude Sonnet 5.5 Guide: A Practical 30-Day Learning Roadmap
Learn Claude Sonnet 5.5 with a practical 30-day roadmap covering coding, research, writing, prompting and automation workflows.
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Jev for RAG Explained: Hybrid Search, Evidence & Decision-First AI
Jev for RAG explained: why hybrid search is only part of retrieval, and how evidence, uncertainty and decision-first AI can improve RAG systems.
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Claude Code Setup Guide: Context, Tokens, Testing & Better Workflows
A practical Claude Code setup guide for better project context, lower token waste, cleaner prompts and more reliable testing.
