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title: "Blog // Field Notes, Page 5 · FoundrySoft"
description: "Engineering notes from senior practitioners on generative AI, retrieval systems, and the real work of shipping LLM-powered software to production."
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url: "https://foundrysoft.co/blog/page/5"
---

Field Notes, 127 Articles

# Notes from the foundry

Engineering essays on generative AI, retrieval systems, and what it takes to ship intelligent software to production.

[81 Tutorial // Data & Security Building a Persistent Data Analyst Agent with Vercel AI SDK and E2B 2026-07-09 →](https://foundrysoft.co/blog/vercel-ai-sdk-e2b-data-analyst) [82 AI Engineering Building a Resilient Support Bot with Vercel AI SDK v7 Durable Workflows 2026-07-09 →](https://foundrysoft.co/blog/vercel-ai-sdk-v7-durable-workflows) [83 Tutorial // Performance Deploying Gemini Omni Flash at the Edge for Zero-Latency RAG 2026-07-08 →](https://foundrysoft.co/blog/gemini-omni-flash-edge-deployment) [84 AI Engineering Debugging Agents Locally with the Vercel AI SDK v7 Terminal UI 2026-07-08 →](https://foundrysoft.co/blog/vercel-ai-sdk-v7-terminal-ui) [85 AI Engineering Securing Database Writes with Vercel AI SDK v7 Tool Approvals 2026-07-07 →](https://foundrysoft.co/blog/vercel-ai-sdk-v7-tool-approvals) [86 AI Engineering Processing Video Files with Vercel AI SDK v7 Multimodal Support 2026-07-06 →](https://foundrysoft.co/blog/vercel-ai-sdk-v7-multimodal-inputs) [87 AI Engineering Finding Slow Tool Calls in Vercel AI SDK v7 Telemetry 2026-07-05 →](https://foundrysoft.co/blog/vercel-ai-sdk-v7-telemetry-tracing) [88 Business // AI Strategy The ROI of AI in 2026: Stop Building Demos 2026-07-04 →](https://foundrysoft.co/blog/roi-of-ai-2026-beyond-hype) [89 AI Engineering Integrating Claude Code with Vercel AI SDK v7 2026-07-04 →](https://foundrysoft.co/blog/vercel-ai-sdk-v7-bringing-your-own-harness) [90 AI Engineering Controlling Model Think Time with Vercel AI SDK v7 Standardized Reasoning 2026-07-03 →](https://foundrysoft.co/blog/vercel-ai-sdk-v7-standardized-reasoning) [91 Engineering // AI Strategy Why Your Internal AI Project is Stalled 2026-07-03 →](https://foundrysoft.co/blog/why-internal-ai-projects-fail) [92 Business // AI Strategy When to Buy AI and When to Build It 2026-07-02 →](https://foundrysoft.co/blog/off-the-shelf-vs-custom-ai) [93 AI Engineering Connecting Local Databases with Vercel AI SDK v7 MCP Apps 2026-07-02 →](https://foundrysoft.co/blog/vercel-ai-sdk-v7-mcp-integration) [94 AI Engineering How to use Gemini's new Omni Flash model for video generation 2026-07-01 →](https://foundrysoft.co/blog/gemini-omni-flash) [95 AI Engineering Vercel AI SDK v7: 10 Massive Changes You Need to Know 2026-06-30 →](https://foundrysoft.co/blog/vercel-ai-sdk-7) [96 Tutorial // Agents Build an Agent with Human Approval Using AI SDK 6 2026-06-23 →](https://foundrysoft.co/blog/ai-sdk-6-agent-human-in-the-loop) [97 Tutorial // RAG Build a RAG Chatbot Over Your Docs with Claude and pgvector 2026-06-23 →](https://foundrysoft.co/blog/build-rag-chatbot-claude-pgvector) [98 Tutorial // MCP Connect Your App to MCP Servers with the AI SDK 2026-06-22 →](https://foundrysoft.co/blog/ai-sdk-6-mcp-integration) [99 Tutorial // Agents Build an AI Agent with Tool Use Using the Claude API 2026-06-22 →](https://foundrysoft.co/blog/build-ai-agent-tool-use-claude) [100 Tutorial // Agents Build a Coding Agent with the Claude Agent SDK 2026-06-21 →](https://foundrysoft.co/blog/build-coding-agent-claude-agent-sdk)

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