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Grounded, production-ready AI — RAG, LLMs and the data behind them.

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The hard part of AI in production is not calling a model — it is feeding it the right context and trusting the result. A language model is only as good as the data you ground it in, and the retrieval, pipelines and infrastructure around it are where real engineering lives.

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8 articles
  • Context Engineering in 2026: What Replaced Prompt EngineeringIntermediate
    Aug 7, 202611 min

    Context Engineering in 2026: What Replaced Prompt Engineering

    Your prompt is fine. Your agent still loses the plot. Context engineering treats the context window as a finite budget — here's what goes in it, why bigger windows don't fix it, and the three techniques that do.

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  • Quantization Explained: How to Run a 70B Model on Consumer HardwareIntermediate
    Aug 5, 20269 min

    Quantization Explained: How to Run a 70B Model on Consumer Hardware

    A 70B model needs 140 GB of VRAM at full precision — until you quantize it. A practical guide to GGUF, K-quants, Q4 vs Q8, what quality you actually lose, and exactly how much VRAM you need.

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  • MCP Servers Explained: Build One, Then Run It SafelyBeginner
    Aug 3, 202612 min

    MCP Servers Explained: Build One, Then Run It Safely

    An MCP server is how you give an AI agent real capabilities — safely. A practical 2026 guide: what the protocol actually is, how to build a server, what breaks in production, and the security rules you cannot skip.

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  • Machines Checking Machines: The Great AI-Detection Absurdity of 2026Beginner
    Jul 25, 20268 min

    Machines Checking Machines: The Great AI-Detection Absurdity of 2026

    Editors run AI detectors on writing, recruiters AI-screen AI-written résumés, universities falsely flag honest students, and paid 'humanizers' rewrite AI to fool AI detectors. An engineer's honest look at the absurd economy of machines checking machines — why AI-text detection is technically unreliable, who it harms, and what to measure instead.

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  • GenAI vs Agentic AI vs AI Agents vs LLM: What's the Actual Difference?Beginner
    Jul 21, 20268 min

    GenAI vs Agentic AI vs AI Agents vs LLM: What's the Actual Difference?

    GenAI vs Agentic AI vs AI Agents vs LLM — the four terms everyone uses interchangeably, explained by an engineer. What each one actually is, how they nest, why GenAI and 'agentic' sit on different axes, with a comparison table and decision guide.

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  • AI Coding Agents in 2026: Claude Code vs Codex vs opencodeIntermediate
    Jul 14, 20267 min

    AI Coding Agents in 2026: Claude Code vs Codex vs opencode

    A vendor-neutral comparison of the three AI coding agents that matter in 2026 — Claude Code, Codex, and opencode: how the agent loop works, where each one fits, a decision table, and how to run them without handing over the keys.

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  • Browser AI in 2026: Running Models On-Device with WebGPU and LiteRT.jsIntermediate
    Jul 10, 20267 min

    Browser AI in 2026: Running Models On-Device with WebGPU and LiteRT.js

    Running AI models directly in the browser is finally fast enough to be real. A practical 2026 guide to on-device inference with WebGPU and Google's new LiteRT.js runtime — what changed, how it works, and when to reach for it.

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  • Real-Time RAG in Python: Feed Your LLM Live Google Results (2026)Advanced
    Jun 16, 20268 min

    Real-Time RAG in Python: Feed Your LLM Live Google Results (2026)

    What if your RAG pipeline could pull fresh web context right before generating an answer? A step-by-step guide to building a live search retrieval layer with Bright Data's SERP API and Python.

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