// research dossier · est. 2026
Every question worth asking,
deservesa real answer
42-research investigates the technical questions people genuinely care about but rarely verify rigorously. Every conclusion states the conditions under which it holds and links to clickable primary sources —no guessing, no echoing unverified claims.
Domains
domains/AI & machine intelligence
The real limits of model capability, and where AI tools actually fit in production — past the hype, into the data.
Architecture & infrastructure
The real cost and latency of edge, cloud, and database choices — modeled on actual usage, not vendor self-benchmarks.
Tooling & technology choices
How to choose frameworks, platforms, and paid services. Conclusions split by scenario, not one-size-fits-all picks.
Trends & judgment
Is a technology a real trend or just hype? Judged from primary signals and first principles, with falsifiable predictions on record.
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Vibecoding: Cloudflare or Vercel?
For AI-driven vibecoding, which is the better long-term bet — Cloudflare (Workers + D1 + R2 + Vite/VoidZero) or Vercel (Next.js + v0)? Grounded in first-party pricing, the June 2026 ecosystem shift, and adversarial verification.
Microsoft Build 2026: The AI-Agent Full Stack
Build 2026's AI announcements, read bottom-up as a single stack: in-house MAI models, the Foundry agent runtime, the Microsoft IQ knowledge layer, Windows as a governed agent host, and the trust/governance layer. Built entirely on Microsoft primary sources, each claim clickable and checkable.
MAI-Image-2.5 vs GPT-Image-2: Has Microsoft Caught Up with OpenAI?
Same ten prompts, five model tiers on Azure AI Foundry — 50 requests, 46 images, 4 blocked by content filtering; latency and token usage from a per-request ledger, published sanitized. The verdict splits by content type: text rendering goes to GPT, people photography goes to MAI — which, under Azure's default content filter, is the only option that works at all.
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Why you can trust the conclusions
Primary sources only
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Conclusions state their limits
Every conclusion says where it holds and where it does not — no answer pretending to be universally true.
Self-rebuttal first
Before concluding, we actively seek counter-examples and question ourselves. Uncertainty is stated, not hidden.
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