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4 issues · Last update 1 Jun 2026Published Monday

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The zero-noise tech radar. AI and ML repos worth five minutes of investigation. Curated, not aggregated.

How this list is built

Practical picks are hand-curated tools we use ourselves. The weekly radar is generated each Monday by a curator that reads six parallel searches and keeps only repos with a genuine novel technique, active commits, and real adoption.

Showing 36 picks across 4 issues, grouped by section.

Practical picks

Hand-picked tools, not weekly research. Pinned here.

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Dev tools

2 picks

CLI tools you actually use day to day.

Prompting and structured outputs

3 picks

Frameworks for writing prompts as code, not strings.

Integration layer

1 pick

One API, many providers. Less lock-in.

Quality and evals

2 picks

Catch slop and regressions before users do.

RAG and document processing

1 pick

Turn documents into things models can use.

Agent frameworks

2 picks

Build agents without writing the runtime yourself.

Documentation

1 pick

Reproducible, code-driven publishing.

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Fresh finds, every Monday.

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Multimodal

5 picks

Models that learn across vision, audio, video, and language together.

Training and fine-tuning

1 pick

Pre-training recipes, fine-tuning frameworks, and the plumbing that makes them work.

Alignment and preference

2 picks

RLHF, DPO, preference learning, and the methods that shape model behaviour.

Agents and robotics

5 picks

Agentic runtimes, tool use, and embodied (robotics) systems.

Evaluation

4 picks

Eval harnesses and benchmarks for comparing models honestly.

Infrastructure

7 picks

Serving, inference, data stores, and operational tooling.