Articles tagged "production"

What is prompt injection? The 3 attack surfaces to fix

Prompt injection hijacks your LLM via user input, retrieved docs, and tool results. Three attack surfaces, and the defenses that actually work in production.

Sep 16, 2026 · 7 min read glossarysecurityllm

LLM cost per user in 2026: $0.15–$0.73 across three workloads

Per-user LLM cost at 1,000 daily users in 2026: token math across chat, extraction, and RAG at two model tiers, with break-even math for solo devs.

Sep 14, 2026 · 5 min read costsolopreneursapi

LLM hallucinations explained: causes, types, production fixes

Why LLMs hallucinate, the three error types, prompting patterns that reduce them, and the one production eval that catches failures before your users see them.

Aug 28, 2026 · 5 min read glossaryhallucinationsllm

LLM conversation costs in production 2026: $50/day without compaction

Per-session cost math for 1,000 daily LLM chat sessions at three model tiers. Why stateless APIs compound costs and when sliding-window compaction pays off.

Aug 21, 2026 · 4 min read costcontext-windowchat-sessions

How to manage LLM context windows in production: 3 Node.js patterns

Sliding window, summarization compaction, priority truncation: three Node.js patterns for managing context in long-running LLM conversations.

Aug 5, 2026 · 5 min read infranodejscontext-window

System prompt explained: behavior, cost, and pitfalls

A system prompt is the hidden instruction block that shapes every LLM response. Here's how it works, what it costs, and the production pitfalls to avoid.

Aug 3, 2026 · 6 min read glossaryfundamentalsprompt-engineering

Semantic caching for LLMs: 3 approaches and where each breaks

Semantic caching reduces LLM API spend by 20-70% in production. Here's how embedding-based, prompt-hash, and hybrid caching each break in practice.

May 25, 2026 · 6 min read infracachingcost