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Techniques for Reducing Hallucinations in LLM Based Applications

Techniques for Reducing Hallucinations in LLM Based Applications

A practical, engineering focused guide to diagnosing and reducing hallucinations in LLM based apps using prompt design, retrieval, constraints, evaluation, and architecture patterns.

Context Windows for LLMs: How to Optimize Prompts for Long Documents

Context Windows for LLMs: How to Optimize Prompts for Long Documents

A practical, engineering-focused guide to token limits, chunking, retrieval, compression, and prompt budgeting so your long-document LLM features stay fast, accurate, and affordable.

TOON: A Token Efficient JSON Alternative for LLMs

TOON: A Token Efficient JSON Alternative for LLMs

A pragmatic proposal for a token-efficient data notation that plays nicely with LLM tokenizers, with TypeScript encoders, streaming patterns, and safety practices.

Designing Architecture for AI‑Powered Recommendation Engines

Designing Architecture for AI‑Powered Recommendation Engines

A practical blueprint for building modern recommender systems - signals, retrieval, ranking, feedback loops, and evaluation with example snippets.

Explore how RAG works and how to implement it in a SaaS project

Explore how RAG works and how to implement it in a SaaS project

A deep, practical tutorial on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for SaaS: architecture, ingestion, retrieval, reranking, compression, prompting, citations, evaluations, costs, and a typed Next.js/Node implementation with code snippets.

LangChain with Next.js to build context-aware chatbots

LangChain with Next.js to build context-aware chatbots

A practical, typed guide to build context-aware chatbots in Next.js with LangChain: chains, memory, retrieval (RAG), streaming, and production tips with TypeScript code.

Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG): A Practical Guide for Production

Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG): A Practical Guide for Production

What RAG is, when to use it, how it works under the hood, and concrete patterns to ship grounded, reliable LLM features in production.

Build a Document Q&A Bot with Next.js, TypeScript, and LangChain (Complete Guide)

Build a Document Q&A Bot with Next.js, TypeScript, and LangChain (Complete Guide)

A production-grade, end-to-end tutorial for building a document Q&A bot using Next.js (App Router), TypeScript, and LangChain - ingestion, embeddings, vector search, RAG chains, streaming, evaluations, and deployment tips.