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Simon Willison's Blog 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 20h ago

Microsoft's new MAI models

Microsoft announced two new text LLMs this morning - MAI-Thinking-1 (reasoning, 35B parameters, available to "select early partners") and MAI-Code-1-Flash (5B p

AI Weekly Digest: Memory Wars, Model Upgrades, and the Trading Benchmark That Humbled Five LLMs

Dev.to · Richard Dillon 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago

AI Weekly Digest: Memory Wars, Model Upgrades, and the Trading Benchmark That Humbled Five LLMs

AI Weekly Digest: Memory Wars, Model Upgrades, and the Trading Benchmark That Humbled Five...

[Day 10] Building my own personal weather officer AI, and teaching it my body's sense of cold over the next 100 days

Dev.to · PEPPERCORN 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago

[Day 10] Building my own personal weather officer AI, and teaching it my body's sense of cold over the next 100 days

Day 10 of my 100-experiment local LLM challenge. I built a v0.1 weather-officer bot that texts me a clothing suggestion every morning and learns whether I run c

Breathing Life into the Pi: Deploying Gemma 4 2B on a Raspberry Pi 5

Dev.to · Atharva Shirdhankar 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago

Breathing Life into the Pi: Deploying Gemma 4 2B on a Raspberry Pi 5

Hi Everyone, I’m back with a brand new project, and this one has been a long time coming. For a...

Local LLM Inference, 1-Bit Image Generation, and Codex Dev Tooling Innovations

Dev.to · soy 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago

Local LLM Inference, 1-Bit Image Generation, and Codex Dev Tooling Innovations

Local LLM Inference, 1-Bit Image Generation, and Codex Dev Tooling Innovations ...

The art of chaining AI models for complex tasks

Dev.to · eternalsix 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago

The art of chaining AI models for complex tasks

The Art of Chaining AI Models for Complex Tasks Last month I spent three days debugging a...

I Published an AI Memory Result. Then Real Retrieval Broke Everything.

Dev.to · Self-Correcting Systems 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago

I Published an AI Memory Result. Then Real Retrieval Broke Everything.

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge. What I Built I published...

Running Local LLMs on Intel Arc iGPU: A Complete Guide for Ubuntu on Mini-PC Hardware

Dev.to · I am Starrzan 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago

Running Local LLMs on Intel Arc iGPU: A Complete Guide for Ubuntu on Mini-PC Hardware

System: GMKtec EVO-T1 (Intel Core Ultra 9 285H, Intel Arc 140T iGPU, 64GB DDR5) OS: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS...

Anthropic Claude 4 API vs OpenAI GPT-4.1 API: DX, Pricing and Hidden Gotchas (2026)

Dev.to · Ayi NEDJIMI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago

Anthropic Claude 4 API vs OpenAI GPT-4.1 API: DX, Pricing and Hidden Gotchas (2026)

Picking a primary LLM API vendor in 2026 is no longer a question of raw capability — both GPT-4.1 and...

AIChain!? Why Another LLM Library?

Dev.to · YAIT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago

AIChain!? Why Another LLM Library?

You wrote an OpenAI integration. Then added Anthropic. Then Gemini. Now look at your code — it's...

I got tired of LLM observability tools getting acquired. So I built one that can't be.

Dev.to · Vignesh Reddy 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago

I got tired of LLM observability tools getting acquired. So I built one that can't be.

Helicone got acquired. Langfuse got acquired. Two of the most trusted tools in the LLM observability...

How to use LLMs effectively in your daily work: a practical tutorial

Dev.to · Rizwan Saleem 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago

How to use LLMs effectively in your daily work: a practical tutorial

How to use LLMs effectively in your daily work: a practical tutorial What to use and...

Building a Real-Time Financial Sentiment API: Handling Noise and LLM Hallucinations

Dev.to · Ozhaya 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago

Building a Real-Time Financial Sentiment API: Handling Noise and LLM Hallucinations

Financial markets move faster than human cognition. A geopolitical headline can trigger automated oil...

Stop Shipping AI Slop: Build an Anti-Slop Harness Around Your LLM

Dev.to · Mehmet TURAÇ 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago

Stop Shipping AI Slop: Build an Anti-Slop Harness Around Your LLM

"AI slop" is not a model problem. It's an engineering problem you decided not to solve. The slop is...

Rust RAG, Tokenizer-Free TTS (VoxCPM2), & Project NOMAD: Local AI & Offline Deployments

Dev.to · soy 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago

Rust RAG, Tokenizer-Free TTS (VoxCPM2), & Project NOMAD: Local AI & Offline Deployments

Rust RAG, Tokenizer-Free TTS (VoxCPM2), & Project NOMAD: Local AI & Offline...

How I Built an LLM Honeypot to Trap Prompt Injection Attacks

Dev.to · Ramina Ibraimova 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago

How I Built an LLM Honeypot to Trap Prompt Injection Attacks

The Problem With the rise of ChatGPT and enterprise LLM integrations, a new attack vector...

Prompt versioning: how I learned the hard way

Dev.to · eternalsix 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago

Prompt versioning: how I learned the hard way

Prompt Versioning: How I Learned the Hard Way Three weeks before a client demo, I pushed...

Lean4 Might Be the Missing Piece in AI: Why Theorem Provers Are Suddenly Everywhere

Dev.to · Shrijith Venkatramana 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago

Lean4 Might Be the Missing Piece in AI: Why Theorem Provers Are Suddenly Everywhere

Hello, I'm Shrijith Venkatramana. I'm building git-lrc, an AI code reviewer that runs on every...

Building a personal AI prompt library - mistakes I made

Dev.to · eternalsix 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago

Building a personal AI prompt library - mistakes I made

I Built a 400-Prompt Library and Used Maybe 12 of Them Six months into building my prompt...

Shikshak Sahayak: I Built an AI Assistant for India's Overworked Government School Teachers using Google Gemini

Dev.to · K Manoj Kumar (manu) 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago

Shikshak Sahayak: I Built an AI Assistant for India's Overworked Government School Teachers using Google Gemini

Shikshak Sahayak: How I Built an AI Assistant for India's Overworked Government School...

I spent a week fixing my chatbot's memory — here's what worked

Dev.to · zhongqiyue 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago

I spent a week fixing my chatbot's memory — here's what worked

Two months ago, I shipped a customer support chatbot for my SaaS product. It worked great for the...

The .txt File as the Soul of a Personal AI — FileRAG Memory Architecture

Dev.to · Dharani 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago

The .txt File as the Soul of a Personal AI — FileRAG Memory Architecture

The .txt File as the Soul of a Personal AI — FileRAG Memory Architecture By Dharanidharan...

I built a RAG pipeline from scratch, and one wrong answer made me dive even deeper into AI Engineering

Dev.to · Felipe Araújo 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago

I built a RAG pipeline from scratch, and one wrong answer made me dive even deeper into AI Engineering

A backend engineer's first step into AI Engineering: embeddings, vector search, and the chunking bug...

I Built a Q&A Bot for My Docs and Almost Gave Up (Here's What Worked)

Dev.to · zhongqiyue 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago

I Built a Q&A Bot for My Docs and Almost Gave Up (Here's What Worked)

A few months ago, I decided to build a Q&A bot for my project’s documentation. You know the...