Perivitta Rajendran

Jun 10, 2026

Edge AI: Running LLMs on Your Phone Without the Cloud

LLMs no longer require a data center. Phi-3, Gemma, and Apple Intelligence run directly on device, with no data leaving your phone....

blogpost· 25 mins read ·Beginner

Jun 9, 2026

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AI Coding Assistants in 2026: Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and the Future of Software Development

AI coding assistants have moved well beyond tab-completion. Cursor edits across files, GitHub Copilot reviews pull requests, and Devin claims to handle...

blogpost· 25 mins read ·Beginner

Jun 8, 2026

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Context Engineering: The New Skill That Is Replacing Prompt Engineering

Prompt engineering is giving way to something deeper: context engineering. How you structure what goes into the context window, what you include,...

blogpost· 26 mins read ·Intermediate

Jun 7, 2026

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Vision Language Models (VLMs): How GPT-4o, Claude, and LLaVA Understand Images

Vision Language Models bridge the gap between pixels and language. This post covers how CLIP encodes images, how visual tokens are projected...

ai-engineering· 45 mins read ·Advanced

Jun 6, 2026

ai-engineering

Mixture of Experts (MoE): The Architecture Behind GPT-4, Mixtral, and Grok

Mixture of Experts scales model capacity without scaling compute. Instead of activating all parameters for every token, MoE routes each token to...

ai-engineering· 47 mins read ·Advanced

Jun 5, 2026

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Diffusion Models Explained: The Math-Free Guide to How Stable Diffusion and DALL-E Work

Diffusion models generate images by learning to reverse a noise process. No math required. Here is the intuition behind Stable Diffusion, DALL-E,...

blogpost· 34 mins read ·Beginner

Jun 4, 2026

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AI Agent Memory: Short-Term Context, Long-Term Storage, and Episodic Recall

Stateless LLMs forget everything when the context window closes. Building agents that actually remember requires understanding four distinct memory types and when...

blogpost· 29 mins read ·Intermediate

Jun 3, 2026

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Reasoning Models Explained: How o1, o3, and DeepSeek R1 Think Before They Answer

Reasoning models like o1, o3, and DeepSeek R1 don't just predict the next token. They think through problems step by step before...

blogpost· 27 mins read ·Intermediate

Jun 2, 2026

ai-engineering

LoRA and QLoRA: Fine-Tuning LLMs on a Single GPU

Full fine-tuning a 7B parameter model requires 112 GB of VRAM and costs thousands of dollars. LoRA reduces trainable parameters by 99%...

ai-engineering· 24 mins read ·Advanced

Jun 1, 2026

ai-engineering

Graph RAG: When Knowledge Graphs Beat Vector Search

Standard vector RAG fails on multi-hop questions that require connecting information across multiple documents. Graph RAG solves this by building a knowledge...

ai-engineering· 24 mins read ·Advanced

Perivitta Rajendran

Recent writing

Decision Trees: A Complete Guide with Hand-Worked Examples

Knowledge Distillation: How Small Models Learn from Big Ones

LLM as Judge: How to Evaluate AI Models Automatically at Scale

From the archive

Edge AI: Running LLMs on Your Phone Without the Cloud

AI Coding Assistants in 2026: Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and the Future of Software Development

Context Engineering: The New Skill That Is Replacing Prompt Engineering

Vision Language Models (VLMs): How GPT-4o, Claude, and LLaVA Understand Images

Mixture of Experts (MoE): The Architecture Behind GPT-4, Mixtral, and Grok

Diffusion Models Explained: The Math-Free Guide to How Stable Diffusion and DALL-E Work

AI Agent Memory: Short-Term Context, Long-Term Storage, and Episodic Recall

Reasoning Models Explained: How o1, o3, and DeepSeek R1 Think Before They Answer

LoRA and QLoRA: Fine-Tuning LLMs on a Single GPU

Graph RAG: When Knowledge Graphs Beat Vector Search

Recent writing

Decision Trees: A Complete Guide with Hand-Worked Examples

Knowledge Distillation: How Small Models Learn from Big Ones

LLM as Judge: How to Evaluate AI Models Automatically at Scale

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From the archive

Edge AI: Running LLMs on Your Phone Without the Cloud

AI Coding Assistants in 2026: Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and the Future of Software Development

Context Engineering: The New Skill That Is Replacing Prompt Engineering

Vision Language Models (VLMs): How GPT-4o, Claude, and LLaVA Understand Images

Mixture of Experts (MoE): The Architecture Behind GPT-4, Mixtral, and Grok

Diffusion Models Explained: The Math-Free Guide to How Stable Diffusion and DALL-E Work

AI Agent Memory: Short-Term Context, Long-Term Storage, and Episodic Recall

Reasoning Models Explained: How o1, o3, and DeepSeek R1 Think Before They Answer

LoRA and QLoRA: Fine-Tuning LLMs on a Single GPU

Graph RAG: When Knowledge Graphs Beat Vector Search