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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.
Pick the tools that match your constraints (latency, privacy, cost) and keep experimenting.