BACKEND

The 2026 agent decision is not CrewAI vs LangGraph. It is whether your loop lives in vendor infrastructure, a self-hosted graph runtime, or a plain while-loop you wrote yourself. Here is how to choose.

Neon's branching model, serverless driver, and scale-to-zero autoscaling make it one of the most practical Postgres hosts for teams building AI agents and preview-heavy apps. Here is what you need to know before committing.

Claude Managed Agents now have multiagent sessions, outcomes, webhooks, and vault events. The practical takeaway is not just better agents. It is that agent runs need backend job discipline.

InsForge is trending because coding agents can scaffold UI faster than they can safely operate databases, auth, storage, functions, and deployments. The backend now needs an agent-readable control plane.

Convex and Supabase both work for AI-powered apps. Here is when to use each, based on building production apps with both.

Reactive backend - database, server functions, real-time sync, cron jobs, file storage. All TypeScript. This site's backend (courses, videos, user data) runs on Convex.