OpenAI API vs Groq: Which One for Side Projects
OpenAI’s API brings in a whopping user base and attention with its many integrations, while Groq is vying hard to take its place in the AI landscape. Real talk: choosing between OpenAI API and Groq for side projects can make the difference between your next idea

Building Streaming Responses with Arize: A Step-by-Step Tutorial

In this tutorial, we’re adding streaming responses using Arize, a critical feature that drastically improves the user experience for interactive applications. If you’re a developer dealing with real-time data, this matters because latency can be the difference between an application being usable or a complete flop.

Prerequisites

Hey everyone, Nina here from agntbox.com! Hope you’re all having a productive week. Mine’s been a bit of a blur, mostly because I’ve been elbow-deep in a new tool that’s been making some serious waves in the AI dev community: Hugging Face’s Transformers.js. Specifically, I’ve been looking at how it’s changing the game for client-side

How to Langfuse Build a RAG Pipeline That Actually Works with Real Data

If you’re like me, you’re tired of those RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipeline tutorials that stop after a toy example of clean text or perfectly formatted PDFs. Instead, I’m going to show you how to langfuse build a RAG pipeline that deals with

Ollama vs vLLM: Which One for Production?
Ollama has 165,710 GitHub stars while vLLM boasts 73,811. But stars don’t code for you. In the ever-evolving landscape of AI frameworks, picking the right one for production is crucial, and you can’t judge a tool just by its popularity.

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My AI Model Deployment Journey: From Frustration to Solution

Alex Chen / March 20, 2026

Hey everyone, Nina here from agntbox.com!

You know, for a while now, I’ve been feeling this low-key frustration about getting AI models into actual products. It’s one thing to train a killer model, another entirely to deploy it efficiently and reliably. Especially when you’re looking at edge devices, or just trying to keep your

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5 Vector Database Selection Mistakes That Cost Real Money

Alex Chen / March 20, 2026

5 Vector Database Selection Mistakes That Cost Real Money
I’ve seen 3 production agent deployments fail this month. All 3 made the same 5 vector database selection mistakes, costing their companies time and money as they scrambled to fix issues that should have been avoided. If you’re in the process of selecting a vector database,

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How to Implement Retry Logic with PydanticAI (Step by Step)

Alex Chen / March 20, 2026

Implementing Retry Logic with PydanticAI: A Step-by-Step Tutorial

We’re building a reliable data-fetching service that handles network interruptions like a pro — because nobody wants their app crashing over a simple timeout.

Prerequisites

Python 3.11+

pip install pydantic-ai

Basic understanding of Pydantic models

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CLI Tools That Get The Job Done Without The Fuss

Alex Chen / March 19, 2026

CLI Tools That Get The Job Done Without The Fuss

So, there I was, sitting in front of my computer, trying to figure out why in the world my fancy new IDE was slower than a snail on a treadmill. You ever been there? That’s when I decided to kick things old school and started exploring

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Docker vs Railway: Which One for Side Projects

Alex Chen / March 19, 2026

Docker vs Railway: Which One for Side Projects?

Currently, Docker has over 45,000 stars on GitHub, while Railway has about 13,000. But honestly, those stars don’t mean much when you’re in the trenches trying to get your side project off the ground.