Tech Stack · The Console

THE TECH STACK CONSOLE

The whole AI stack as one walkable rack — the five build layers, plus principles, models, the playbook, and the directory. Pick a chip in the needle row or walk with the arrow keys; each panel shows the section, a live count from its own data, a sample of what’s inside, and a link straight in.

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TECH STACK · LAYER

Hardware

The silicon layer — accelerator chips, high-bandwidth memory, the interconnect that lashes thousands of GPUs into one machine, and the fab supply chain underneath it all.

9tools in the kit
  • Nvidia H100via GPU-cloud rental
  • Nvidia H200via GPU-cloud rental
  • Nvidia B200 / GB200via GPU-cloud rental
  • AMD MI300X / MI325Xrentable on several neoclouds
  • Google TPU (v5p, v6e/Trillium)via Google Cloud TPU
  • Lambda

… and 3 more in the full layer page

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TECH STACK · LAYER

Infrastructure

The physical plant — data centers, power and cooling, the cluster network, the clouds that rent it out, and the scheduling software that keeps expensive silicon busy.

9tools in the kit
  • AWS
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud (GCP)
  • Oracle Cloud (OCI)
  • CoreWeave
  • Lambda

… and 3 more in the full layer page

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TECH STACK · LAYER

Foundation

The models themselves — LLMs, embeddings, pretraining and alignment, quantization, multimodal, and the open-versus-closed-weights economics.

20tools in the kit
  • OpenAI — GPT family + o-series reasoning models
  • Anthropic — Claude family
  • Google — Gemini family
  • Amazon (Nova) + Bedrock
  • Microsoft Azure OpenAI
  • Mistral AIAPI tier

… and 14 more in the full layer page

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TECH STACK · LAYER

Orchestration

The wiring around the model — RAG, agents, tools, memory, vector databases, evals, and the context engineering that turns rented intelligence into products.

12tools in the kit
  • LangChain
  • LlamaIndex
  • Pinecone
  • Weaviate
  • Qdrant
  • LangGraphvia LangChain

… and 6 more in the full layer page

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TECH STACK · LAYER

Application

What ships on top — copilots, AI search, coding assistants, creative tools, agents-as-products, and the vertical apps where the stack finally meets a user.

35tools in the kit
  • Cursor
  • Claude Code
  • GitHub Copilot
  • Windsurf
  • Replit
  • Claude / ChatGPT (the frontier chats)

… and 29 more in the full layer page

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TECH STACK · GROUNDWORK

Principles

How AI actually works, from first principles — the ideas under every layer of the stack, in plain language.

34chapters
  • AI Principles8 ch
  • Hardware4 ch
  • Infrastructure4 ch
  • Foundation7 ch
  • Orchestration8 ch
  • Application3 ch
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TECH STACK · REGISTRY

Models

The model registry — the families you actually choose between, and what each one is for.

12families
  • GPT
  • o-series (reasoning)
  • Claude
  • Gemini
  • Llama
  • Mistral / Mixtral

… and 6 more in the registry

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TECH STACK · GUIDE

Playbook

How to build with it: patterns, prompt craft, integrations, and the coding tools.

5guides
  • Tips, Tricks & Best Practices
  • The Prompt Library
  • The How-To Guides
  • INTEGRATIONS
  • IDEs & Platforms
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TECH STACK · DIRECTORY

Resources

The directory — tools, models, and where to get them, shelved by layer.

6shelves
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