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YAML vs JSON for LLMs: Real Token Counts, Real Gotchas

October 13, 2026October 13, 2026 Amaresh Pelleti
token count comparison chart for yaml json and toon formats

YAML vs JSON for LLMs isn’t just a style preference — it changes how many tokens you pay for on every request. I ran both formats through a real tokenizer on identical data instead of repeating the “20-ish percent” figures… Read moreYAML vs JSON for LLMs: Real Token Counts, Real Gotchas

AI Tools  ai-agents, JSON, LLM, token-efficiency, YAML  Leave a comment

Ollama vs vLLM vs llama.cpp: Which Local LLM Engine?

October 1, 2026October 1, 2026 Amaresh Pelleti
ollama vs vllm vs llama.cpp comparison of local LLM engines and concurrency

Ollama vs vLLM vs llama.cpp comes down to one question: how many people will hit the model at once? For one developer on a laptop, pick Ollama or llama.cpp. For a GPU server with many concurrent users, pick vLLM. Below,… Read moreOllama vs vLLM vs llama.cpp: Which Local LLM Engine?

AI Tools  llama-cpp, local-llm, Ollama, vllm  Leave a comment

Cursor Pricing: What the Plans Actually Give You

September 22, 2026September 22, 2026 Amaresh Pelleti
cursor pricing breakdown showing Hobby, Pro, Pro+, and Ultra plan tiers

Cursor pricing lists four plans — Hobby, Pro, Pro+, and Ultra. Only one number on the page is real: the price. Pro costs $20 a month for “extended limits on Agent.” Pro+ costs $60 for “3x Pro limits.” Ultra costs… Read moreCursor Pricing: What the Plans Actually Give You

AI Tools  AI Tools, coding assistants, cursor, pricing

Ollama Production Deployment: systemd, TLS, and API Auth

September 21, 2026September 21, 2026 Amaresh Pelleti
ollama production deployment diagram showing nginx TLS termination and API key auth in front of the Ollama service

Ollama production deployment means three things the official docs don’t cover: the default systemd unit runs Ollama unsandboxed, the reverse-proxy example in Ollama’s own FAQ has no TLS and no auth, and there’s no built-in authentication at all — anyone… Read moreOllama Production Deployment: systemd, TLS, and API Auth

AI Tools  AI Tools, Linux, Ollama, Self-hosted AI

AI Agents Explained: How They Actually Work

September 17, 2026September 22, 2026 Amaresh Pelleti
ai agents explained diagram showing the observe, decide, act, tool call loop

AI agents explained in one sentence: software where an LLM decides what to do next, based on the result of what it just did, in a loop, instead of following a script you wrote in advance. It picks which tool… Read moreAI Agents Explained: How They Actually Work

AI Tools  AI Agents, AI Tools, LLM, MCP, Ollama

What Is RAG? Retrieval-Augmented Generation Explained

September 15, 2026September 15, 2026 Amaresh Pelleti
what is RAG diagram showing retrieval, vector search, and generation pipeline

What is RAG, in one sentence? A way to make an LLM answer questions using documents it was never trained on. It searches those documents for relevant passages, then hands the model the results as context before generating a response…. Read moreWhat Is RAG? Retrieval-Augmented Generation Explained

AI Tools  AI Tools, LLM, Ollama, rag, vector database

What Is an LLM? A Working Model for Engineers

September 14, 2026September 14, 2026 Amaresh Pelleti
what is an LLM diagram showing tokens, context window, and next-token prediction

What is an LLM, in one sentence? A model that has one job: given the text so far, predict the next token, append it, and repeat. That’s it. Everything else — chat interfaces, coding assistants, agents that call tools —… Read moreWhat Is an LLM? A Working Model for Engineers

AI Tools  AI Concepts, AI Tools, large language models, LLM, Ollama

The MCP Registry, By the Numbers

September 11, 2026September 11, 2026 Amaresh Pelleti
official MCP registry breakdown across 30,375 servers

The official MCP registry is the closest thing the Model Context Protocol has to an app store. So we pulled every entry from its API and counted what’s actually in there. The short version: 30,375 servers as of September 10,… Read moreThe MCP Registry, By the Numbers

AI Tools  ai-agents, ai-tools, MCP, model-context-protocol

Best MCP Servers in 2026: One Pick Per Category

September 10, 2026September 10, 2026 Amaresh Pelleti
best MCP servers by category with OAuth 2.1 compliance status

The best MCP servers in 2026 aren’t just the ones with the most GitHub stars. With the 2026-07-28 spec update — final and current since late July — making OAuth 2.1 mandatory for every remote MCP server, “best” now also… Read moreBest MCP Servers in 2026: One Pick Per Category

AI Tools  ai-agents, MCP, model-context-protocol, oauth

MCP Server Authentication: What the 2026-07-28 Spec Broke

September 10, 2026September 10, 2026 Amaresh Pelleti
MCP server authentication changes in the 2026-07-28 spec update

MCP server authentication stopped being optional a month ago. The Model Context Protocol’s largest spec revision since launch finalized on schedule on July 28, 2026 and is now the current protocol version. It turns every remote MCP server into a… Read moreMCP Server Authentication: What the 2026-07-28 Spec Broke

AI Tools  ai-agents, MCP, model-context-protocol, oauth

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