Practical AI and machine learning engineering. LLM inference, tokenization, RAG pipelines, model deployment, vector databases, and the infrastructure behind modern AI applications.
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Real 8xH100 training-economics comparison across RunPod ($22.32/hr Secure Cloud), Vast.ai (spot $12.16/hr floor), and Lambda Labs (reserved $14.80/hr). MFU benchmarks, break-even math for spot vs reserved, interruption rates, and which provider wins per job shape.
Curated top 20 MCP servers across official Anthropic, vendor-official, community, and dev-tooling categories. Install commands, auth setup, use cases, costs, and the security gotchas nobody covers.
Claude Opus 4.7 hits 87.6% SWE-bench Verified at $5/$25 per million tokens. Full benchmarks vs Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6, cache-math, and the migration checklist.
Anthropic 90% off with explicit breakpoints, OpenAI 50% auto, Bedrock per-region. Real cost math, when caching pays off, where to put cache markers, and the system-prompt design rules that make it work.
MLflow wins OSS + model registry, W&B wins research UX + Sweeps ($50/user/mo), DVC wins data lineage + git-native pipelines ($20/user/mo). Feature matrix, migration paths, and a clear decision matrix.
Prompt caching cuts LLM API bills 50-90% by reusing the KV cache for stable prefixes. Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, and vLLM compared with real pricing, implementation patterns, and four workload simulations.
Benchmarked comparison of RunPod, Lambda Labs, Paperspace, Vast.ai, and Together AI for AI training in 2026. Real H100 hourly rates, multi-node reliability, spin-up times, and a decision matrix for picking the right cloud GPU provider.
Step-by-step tutorial to build an MCP server in TypeScript with @modelcontextprotocol/sdk and Zod. Three tools, stdio transport, Inspector debugging, Claude Desktop/Cursor integration, and npm publish.
Deploy a private ChatGPT alternative with Open WebUI and Ollama. Complete Docker Compose setup with model selection, RAG document upload, web search, multi-user config, and security hardening.
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