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Notes from the intersection of research and engineering: urban video understanding, vision-language and retrieval systems, visual analytics, and the tooling that gets them shipped.
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PydanticAI vs. LangChain vs. LlamaIndex: picking an agent framework in 2026
A pragmatic comparison of PydanticAI, LangChain/LangGraph and LlamaIndex for building production LLM agents. Type safety, tool calling, retrieval, observability, and where each one breaks at scale.
Copier vs. Cookiecutter: why your project templates should be living, not frozen
A hands-on comparison of Copier and Cookiecutter for project scaffolding. Why Copier's update story makes it the right default for long-lived templates, with examples, migration notes, and trade-offs.
Dagster vs. Airflow and Prefect: why asset-based orchestration wins
A pragmatic comparison of Dagster, Airflow, Prefect, and Flyte for modern data and ML pipelines. Why the asset-based model beats task-DAGs, with code, a cost model, and migration notes.
uv vs. conda and virtualenv: why the Rust-based Python installer wins
A hands-on comparison of uv, conda and virtualenv/pip. Why uv is becoming the default Python toolchain for software engineers and ML practitioners, with benchmarks, workflows, and migration tips.