Mayank Patel·Jul 26AI Security & the LLM Threat Model: Why You Can’t Patch Prompt InjectionAn LLM reads untrusted text and can’t reliably tell instructions from data. Here’s how attacks get in — and how to keep the blast radius…
Mayank Patel·Jul 26Evaluations, Done Right: How to Prove Your AI Is Actually Any GoodAnyone can ship an AI feature that demos well. Evaluations are how you prove it’s good — repeatably, before your users find out it isn’t.
Mayank Patel·Jul 24AI FinOps: Why Cheaper Tokens Are Making Your AI Bill BiggerPer-token prices are collapsing while AI bills keep climbing. The cost of an AI feature is decided in your architecture and code — not in…
Mayank Patel·Jul 20The LLM Gateway: One Control Plane for Every Model CallRouting, caching, fallback, budgets, guardrails, and observability — enforced once, instead of reinvented in every service.
Mayank Patel·Jul 20AI Observability: How to See Inside Systems That Never Behave the Same Way TwiceTraditional monitoring tells you the service is up. AI observability tells you whether the answer was right — and lets you prove why.
Mayank Patel·Jul 16Agentic Architecture: When the AI Acts, Not Just AnswersA field guide to systems that pursue goals — the parts, the types, the orchestration, and what it takes to make them reliable.
Mayank Patel·Jul 15RAG & Context Engineering: How the AI Actually Knows ThingsA model’s knowledge is frozen, lossy, and public. Retrieval and context engineering are how you feed it the right facts — yours, and…
Mayank Patel·Jul 15How LLMs Actually Work: Tokens, Embeddings, and Why They HallucinateNo magic, no mystery — just a prediction engine. Here’s the pipeline from your words to its answer, and why a machine this fluent still…
Mayank Patel·Jul 8The LLM Iron Triangle: Why You Can’t Have Cheap, Fast, and Smart at OnceA CAP-style trade-off every production AI system runs into — and how to bend it.
Mayank Patel·Mar 4Why Your Research Process Is Costing You $500 Per Report (And How AI Changes Everything)You’re a strategy analyst. It’s Monday morning. Your VP just Slacked you: “Need competitive landscape on EV battery suppliers by Thursday.”
