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8 resources ·updated bi-weekly

Research paperJun 2026

A practical framework for evaluating LLM applications in production

Why most "LLM evals" are theater, and a 5-layer framework for measuring what actually matters: correctness, latency, cost, safety, and user satisfaction.

#LLM#Evals#Production
24 min readMimo Patra
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Blog postMay 2026

12 prompting patterns every AI engineer should know by heart

Stop vibes-prompting. These 12 patterns — from chain-of-thought to self-consistency — will make your prompts reproducible, testable, and shippable.

#Prompting#Patterns#LLM
8 min readMimo Patra
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DownloadMay 2026

The Sariro RAG pre-launch checklist (PDF, 2 pages)

A printable 2-page checklist covering the 24 things you must verify before shipping a retrieval-augmented generation system to real users.

#RAG#Checklist#PDF
PDF · 2 pagesSariro Team
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Research paperApr 2026

Teaching thinking, not typing: a pedagogy for AI literacy

A research-grounded argument for why AI education must prioritize systems thinking over syntax — with data from 3 cohorts and 1,200 students.

#Pedagogy#Education#Research
18 min readMimo Patra
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Blog postApr 2026

Vector DB shootout: pgvector vs Pinecone vs Weaviate in 2026

We benchmarked the three most popular vector databases on the same RAG workload. The winner depends on three things — and they're not what you think.

#Vector DB#RAG#Benchmark
11 min readSariro Team
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DownloadMar 2026

Sariro AI Builder Starter Kit (GitHub template)

A ready-to-clone Next.js + Python starter with RAG, evals, and a deploy button. Used by every Sariro cohort as their day-one scaffold.

#Template#Starter#GitHub
GitHub repoSariro Team
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Research paperMar 2026

On the reliability of autonomous AI agents: a field study

We deployed 7 agent architectures across 4 production workloads for 90 days. Here's what broke, what held, and what we'd never ship again.

#Agents#Reliability#Field study
32 min readMimo Patra
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Blog postFeb 2026

How to design a CSTA-aligned AI curriculum for grades 9–12

A walkthrough of the Sariro schools curriculum — module by module, learning objective by learning objective — with a free downloadable syllabus.

#Schools#CSTA#Curriculum
14 min readMimo Patra
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