AI Tools & Frameworks
Honest comparisons and production notes on the tools that matter: LangChain, LlamaIndex, pgvector, Weaviate, Pinecone, Langfuse, and the rest of the modern AI engineering stack.
RAG Benchmark Methodology: How We Score Retrieval + Generation in 2026
The four-axis frame we score on (recall, faithfulness, relevancy, cost-per-query), the Ragas metrics, the corpus + judge selection, and the failure modes — the methodology behind our 2026-Q2 RAG benchmark on getwidget.dev.
Enterprise AI Platform Buyer's Guide: A Decision Rubric for 2026
Build vs buy vs orchestrate decision rubric for enterprise AI platforms. Operator-honest comparison across Databricks, Snowflake Cortex, IBM watsonx, AWS Bedrock, Vertex AI, Azure AI Foundry, and DIY orchestration — with cost archetypes and a 12-week deployment shape.
Is Cursor AI Worth It? An Honest Review After 6 Months in Production
Six months of Cursor in production: 2026 update covering Composer 2, background agents, Hooks, MCP, the June 2025 pricing reset, real cursor vs Copilot team cost math, and where Continue.dev fits as the open-source alternative.
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