#229 Neil: My 41-Tool AI Stack That Actually Works For 2026

This is the complete 41-tool list for 2026. I spent a year testing this setup for real-world AI apps. We cover everything ➡️ core infrastructure (Postgres), AI agents (Pydantic AI), RAG (Docling), web automation (Browserbase), full-stack (React), and deployment (Render). Get the full A-Z list. 🚀

We'll talk about:

• Part 1: Core Infrastructure: The 4 foundation tools (Database, Caching, AI Coder, Prototyping) for any project.
• Part 2: AI Agent Core: How to build agents (Pydantic AI), connect them (LangGraph), and watch them (Langfuse).
• Part 3: RAG Agents: The full toolkit for RAG, from extracting data (Docling) to vector search (pgvector) and memory (Mem0).
• Part 4: Web Automation: Tools that let your agents control a b ...