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Explore all posts tagged with AI. Each article in this collection covers core concepts, practical implementations, and real-world patterns to deepen your understanding.

Whether you are just getting started or looking to master advanced techniques, these curated posts provide the depth and clarity needed to build production-grade skills in AI.

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Why I Built Yet Another Dev Blog (and Why You Shouldn't)
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Why I Built Yet Another Dev Blog (and Why You Shouldn't)

Every developer has a blog in 2026. So why did I spend six months building my own? Because I wanted to teach things that Medium, Dev.to, and WordPress cannot support — interactive code, RAG chat, gamification, and a learning engine that rewards understanding, not scrolling. This is the architecture story.

15mMay 11, 2026Updated#AI
Building a RAG Chat System: From Zero to Production
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Building a RAG Chat System: From Zero to Production

Building a production RAG chat system from scratch using OpenAI embeddings, pgvector HNSW indexing, and hybrid search. Explains how the Ask AI page works: OpenAI text-embedding-3-small generates 1536-dimensional embeddings stored in PostgreSQL with pgvector and HNSW indexes for fast approximate nearest-neighbor search, combined with PostgreSQL tsvector full-text search using weighted BM25 scoring, relevance thresholds for preventing hallucination, source-grounded citations showing which post each answer is from, and the complete API pipeline from query to streaming SSE response with session management and rate limiting.

30mMay 11, 2026Updated#AI
Understanding the Production RAG Stack: Streaming and Citations
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Understanding the Production RAG Stack: Streaming and Citations

The Ask AI page streams answers live via SSE, shows clickable source badges before the first token arrives, auto-retries on connection drops, enforces daily quotas via Redis, and integrates with chat sessions and XP gamification.

20mMay 19, 2026Updated#AI

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