https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/ Recent content in AI Engineering on Manvendra Rajpoot https://blog.rajpoot.dev/img/personal/cover.png https://blog.rajpoot.dev/img/personal/cover.png Hugo en-US Manvendra Rajpoot https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-self-host-economics-2026/ Tue, 05 May 2026 08:30:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-self-host-economics-2026/ Self-hosting LLMs in 2026 — vLLM, GPU economics, break-even, and when self-host beats API. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/anthropic-api-best-practices-2026/ Tue, 05 May 2026 07:50:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/anthropic-api-best-practices-2026/ Anthropic API best practices in 2026 — prompt caching, tool use, streaming, batch API, and production patterns from real Claude apps. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/ai-coding-evals-2026/ Tue, 05 May 2026 06:20:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/ai-coding-evals-2026/ Evaluating AI coding tools in 2026 — SWE-bench, real-world tasks, and what's actually predictive of productivity gains. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/synthetic-data-2026/ Tue, 05 May 2026 06:10:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/synthetic-data-2026/ Synthetic data generation with LLMs in 2026 — when it helps, model collapse risk, eval set generation, and production patterns. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/voice-agents-2026/ Tue, 05 May 2026 06:00:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/voice-agents-2026/ Building voice AI agents in 2026 — streaming STT, LLM, TTS pipelines, latency budgets, interruption, and real-world architectures. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-mcp-protocol-2026/ Mon, 04 May 2026 06:10:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-mcp-protocol-2026/ MCP in 2026 — protocol overview, server / client patterns, ecosystem, and an honest take on where MCP fits in agent infrastructure. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-tool-use-patterns-2026/ Mon, 04 May 2026 06:00:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-tool-use-patterns-2026/ LLM tool use in 2026 — designing tool schemas, parallel calls, error handling, and the patterns from production agents. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/agentic-coding-2026/ Sun, 03 May 2026 08:50:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/agentic-coding-2026/ Agentic coding in 2026 — Claude Code, Cursor, Aider, and how AI coding agents actually fit into senior engineers' workflows. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-batch-processing-2026/ Sun, 03 May 2026 06:20:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-batch-processing-2026/ LLM batch APIs in 2026 — Anthropic, OpenAI, Bedrock batch processing for 50% discount, when to use them, and the patterns that work. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-deployment-patterns-2026/ Sun, 03 May 2026 06:10:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-deployment-patterns-2026/ LLM deployment patterns in 2026 — vLLM, TGI, Ollama, hybrid API+self-hosted, routing layers, and the production architectures that actually work. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-prompt-engineering-2026/ Sun, 03 May 2026 06:00:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-prompt-engineering-2026/ Prompt engineering in 2026 — patterns that still work, what's been obsoleted by better models, structured prompts, and production discipline. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-agent-frameworks-2026/ Sat, 02 May 2026 12:50:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-agent-frameworks-2026/ LLM agent frameworks in 2026 — LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK, AutoGen, and when bare-metal is better. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/agent-memory-systems-2026/ Sat, 02 May 2026 11:10:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/agent-memory-systems-2026/ Agent memory systems in 2026 — episodic vs semantic memory, vector stores, working memory, and patterns from production agents. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-context-windows-2026/ Sat, 02 May 2026 11:00:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-context-windows-2026/ LLM context windows in 2026 — what 200k / 1M context can and can't do, prompt caching, retrieval, and patterns from production. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/multimodal-llms-2026/ Sat, 02 May 2026 09:30:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/multimodal-llms-2026/ Multimodal LLMs in 2026 — vision input, audio input, generation, real-world use cases, and the patterns that work in production. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-rag-evaluation-2026/ Sat, 02 May 2026 09:20:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-rag-evaluation-2026/ RAG evaluation in 2026 — retrieval metrics (recall, MRR), generation metrics (faithfulness, relevance), Ragas, and the patterns from production RAG. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-observability-2026/ Sat, 02 May 2026 07:30:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-observability-2026/ Production LLM observability in 2026 — distributed tracing, eval pipelines, Langfuse, Arize, and the patterns that turn black-box LLMs into operable systems. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-cost-optimization-2026/ Sat, 02 May 2026 07:20:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-cost-optimization-2026/ Cutting LLM costs in 2026 — prompt caching, routing, batching, fine-tunes, and the patterns that drop bills 5-20× without quality loss. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-guardrails-content-safety-2026/ Fri, 01 May 2026 07:10:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-guardrails-content-safety-2026/ Practical LLM guardrails in 2026 — input filtering, output validation, NVIDIA NeMo, Guardrails AI, and the patterns that prevent embarrassments. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/embedding-databases-2026/ Fri, 01 May 2026 07:00:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/embedding-databases-2026/ Embedding databases compared in 2026 — pgvector, Qdrant, Weaviate, Milvus, Pinecone, Vectorize. When each fits. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-fine-tuning-lora-qlora-2026/ Fri, 01 May 2026 06:00:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-fine-tuning-lora-qlora-2026/ Practical LLM fine-tuning in 2026 — LoRA, QLoRA, training data prep, evaluation, and the patterns from teams shipping fine-tuned models. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-agent-error-recovery-2026/ Fri, 01 May 2026 04:30:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-agent-error-recovery-2026/ How to build LLM agents that recover from errors gracefully — retry policies, fallback paths, max-step caps, and the patterns that prevent runaway loops. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/openai-vs-anthropic-vs-google-2026/ Fri, 01 May 2026 03:00:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/openai-vs-anthropic-vs-google-2026/ Honest comparison of OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Google for production LLM apps in 2026 — model quality, pricing, latency, ecosystem, and how to pick. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/document-ai-pdf-extraction-2026/ Fri, 01 May 2026 01:50:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/document-ai-pdf-extraction-2026/ How to extract structured data from PDFs and images in 2026 — vision LLMs, OCR pipelines, layout-aware models, and the patterns that ship. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-prompt-caching-deep-dive-2026/ Fri, 01 May 2026 00:30:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-prompt-caching-deep-dive-2026/ Prompt caching mechanics in 2026 — Anthropic's ephemeral cache, OpenAI's automatic caching, breakpoint placement, hit-rate measurement, and the patterns that save real money.