AI/LLM Cheatsheet 01 — LLM Basics

Cheatsheet: API basics, tokens, costs, model choices.

May 26, 2026 · 3 min · 585 words · Manvendra Rajpoot

AI/LLM Cheatsheet 02 — Prompt Engineering

Cheatsheet: prompt patterns, system messages, few-shot, CoT, role play.

May 26, 2026 · 4 min · 704 words · Manvendra Rajpoot

AI/LLM Cheatsheet 03 — Tool Use / Function Calling

Cheatsheet: tool schemas, OpenAI + Anthropic patterns, parallel.

May 26, 2026 · 3 min · 630 words · Manvendra Rajpoot

AI/LLM Cheatsheet 04 — Embeddings

Cheatsheet: embedding APIs, dimensions, normalization, similarity, chunking.

May 26, 2026 · 3 min · 620 words · Manvendra Rajpoot

AI/LLM Cheatsheet 05 — RAG Patterns

Cheatsheet: RAG pipeline, chunking, retrieval, rerank, citations.

May 26, 2026 · 4 min · 704 words · Manvendra Rajpoot

AI/LLM Cheatsheet 08 — Streaming Patterns

Cheatsheet: SSE setup, fastapi streaming, frontend EventSource.

May 26, 2026 · 4 min · 644 words · Manvendra Rajpoot

AI/LLM Cheatsheet 09 — Function Calling Patterns

Cheatsheet: function calling patterns and gotchas.

May 26, 2026 · 2 min · 329 words · Manvendra Rajpoot

AI/LLM Cheatsheet 10 — Evaluation

Cheatsheet: eval frameworks, golden datasets, LLM-as-judge.

May 26, 2026 · 3 min · 468 words · Manvendra Rajpoot

AI/LLM Cheatsheet 11 — Cost Optimization

Cheatsheet: prompt caching, batching, model selection, output limits.

May 26, 2026 · 3 min · 427 words · Manvendra Rajpoot

AI/LLM Cheatsheet 12 — Local LLMs (Ollama, vLLM)

Cheatsheet: Ollama, vLLM, llama.cpp, when to self-host.

May 26, 2026 · 3 min · 506 words · Manvendra Rajpoot