AI Toolbelt
Platforms & APIs
- OpenAI (GPT-4o, GPT-4o mini) – default for reasoning-heavy tasks.
- Anthropic Claude 3.5 – great for safety-critical briefs.
- Google Gemini / Vertex – when data residency or multimodal features needed.
- Cohere – rerankers + command models for enterprise contexts.
SDKs & Frameworks
- Vercel AI SDK for streaming + React server components.
- LangChain for agent orchestration.
- LlamaIndex for retrieval pipelines.
- Smithery / Instructor for structured outputs.
Ops & Testing
- LangSmith + Evals for regression testing.
- Promptfoo for quick comparisons.
- Truelens for trust metrics.
- Weights & Biases for fine-tune tracking.
Hosting & Runtime
- Vercel for edge functions.
- Cloudflare Workers AI for GPU-free inference.
- Modal / RunPod for custom models + batch jobs.
Utilities
- Whisper.cpp for on-device transcription.
- Haystack for enterprise search prototypes.
- PromptLib (my product) for curated prompts + guardrails.
