LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, AutoGen — agent frameworks and when building custom beats buying pre-packaged.
n8n, Make, Zapier vs custom agents — when no-code automation is sufficient and when you need a real agent architecture.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Mistral — model selection by use case and the real cost-performance tradeoffs at production scale.
Together AI, Replicate, Modal, self-hosted — when fine-tuning is worth it and what infrastructure you need to serve your own models.
Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, pgvector — when you need a dedicated vector store vs when your existing database is enough.
Langfuse, Helicone, Arize, Braintrust — monitoring and evals for production AI, and why this is no longer optional once you're past prototype.
Jasper, Copy.ai, Persado, Writer — AI-native marketing tools vs wrappers, and which ones have defensible differentiation vs commoditizing fast.
dbt Copilot, Hex AI, Databricks Assistant — where AI tooling in the data stack is genuinely useful and where it's still mostly demo-ware.
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