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LLM Foundations
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Explain how transformers generate text
Prompt Craft
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Write zero-shot and few-shot prompts
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Call LLM APIs with function/tool use
Fine-tuning LLMs
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Prepare fine-tuning datasets
Multimodal LLMs
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Use GPT-4V / Claude Vision for image understanding
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CELN: A CPU-only deterministic reasoning engine using Vector Symbolic Architectures
Dev.to · Flavio Venturini 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4h ago
CELN: A CPU-only deterministic reasoning engine using Vector Symbolic Architectures
I wanted to share a project I've been working on: CELN (C. Elegans Learning Network). It's a logical...
Claude Desktop is now on Linux
Dev.to · alex getman 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4h ago
Claude Desktop is now on Linux
Claude Desktop is now on Linux Anthropic has released Claude Desktop for Linux in beta. Ubuntu and...
How to Make an LLM 2-3x Faster Without Changing a Single Word It Says
Dev.to · Devanshu Biswas 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6h ago
How to Make an LLM 2-3x Faster Without Changing a Single Word It Says
Large language models are slow for one stubborn reason: they write one token at a time. To produce a...
How ChatGPT Understands Your Questions
Dev.to · Shivam Yadav 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6h ago
How ChatGPT Understands Your Questions
From Words to Tokens: Understanding How Large Language Models Think Every day, millions of...
Making RAG admit when it's guessing: source-grounded hallucination checks
Dev.to · Sid Probstein 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 7h ago
Making RAG admit when it's guessing: source-grounded hallucination checks
The failure mode that scares me most in RAG isn't a wrong answer. It's a confident wrong answer with...
Google's V2A is the other half of generative video
Dev.to · albe_sf 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 7h ago
Google's V2A is the other half of generative video
Most generative video models ship silent. Google DeepMind's new V2A technology generates synchronized audio from video pixels and text prompts, pointing to a fu
From Neo4j Fundamentals to GraphRAG: 7 Things I Learned About Building Modern AI Agents
Dev.to · Parinay Pandey 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 7h ago
From Neo4j Fundamentals to GraphRAG: 7 Things I Learned About Building Modern AI Agents
For a long time, I assumed building better AI applications meant using better LLMs. After learning...
How to Build an AI Chat Endpoint in Node.js with the Telnyx AI Assistants API
Dev.to · Harpreet Singh Seehra 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 8h ago
How to Build an AI Chat Endpoint in Node.js with the Telnyx AI Assistants API
Most "add an AI assistant to my app" tutorials stop at the demo. They show you how to call an LLM and...
Optimizing for Agents with llms.txt
Dev.to · Ryan Palo 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 8h ago
Optimizing for Agents with llms.txt
If you’ve spent any time poking around the AIE World’s Fair 2026 website, you may have come across...
The Multi-Agent Architecture for Education
Dev.to · Mostafa Fathy 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 8h ago
The Multi-Agent Architecture for Education
Why a single LLM prompt wasn't enough - and how splitting curriculum generation into specialized agents cut production time while improving consistency across t
Claude Fable is back!
Dev.to · alex getman 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 8h ago
Claude Fable is back!
Claude Fable is back! Anthropic has lifted restrictions on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after a...
LLMs are Demented!
Dev.to · UnitBuilds 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 8h ago
LLMs are Demented!
Crossword puzzles are easy. But what if you had to solve one while running inside the hardware constraints of a Large Language Model?
When Claude starts hallucinating, kill the session
Dev.to · Alex Tong 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 9h ago
When Claude starts hallucinating, kill the session
Most people don't realize they're 30 minutes into arguing with an AI that stopped listening 20 minutes ago. The fix: throw the session away.
I Cut My AI Bill 97.5% in One Afternoon — And You Can Too
Dev.to · eagerspark 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 10h ago
I Cut My AI Bill 97.5% in One Afternoon — And You Can Too
So here's what happened: i Cut My AI Bill 97.5% in One Afternoon — And You Can Too Last month I...
I Benchmarked DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi & GLM for 30 Days — The Numbers
Dev.to · rarenode 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 11h ago
I Benchmarked DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi & GLM for 30 Days — The Numbers
I Benchmarked DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi & GLM for 30 Days — The Numbers I'll be honest — I didn't set...
Building DevMentor: Designing a Voice-to-Pull Request AI Pipeline
Dev.to · Heet Mehta 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 11h ago
Building DevMentor: Designing a Voice-to-Pull Request AI Pipeline
Category: AI Engineering • LLMs • Developer Tools • Agentic AI Building DevMentor:...
How I Stopped Fighting Hallucinations in LLM Data Extraction
Dev.to · zhongqiyue 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 12h ago
How I Stopped Fighting Hallucinations in LLM Data Extraction
We all know the feeling. You've got a stack of invoices, contracts, or some other semi-structured...
Understanding How LLMs Work: From Text to Tokens, Embeddings, Transformers, and Predictions
Dev.to · Klinsmann R 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 12h ago
Understanding How LLMs Work: From Text to Tokens, Embeddings, Transformers, and Predictions
Artificial Intelligence is nothing new. It has been around since the early days of computing and has...
How ChatGPT Understands Your Questions: A Beginner-Friendly Guide
Dev.to · Shreyas Rasaikar 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 12h ago
How ChatGPT Understands Your Questions: A Beginner-Friendly Guide
Introduction Have you ever typed a question into ChatGPT and received a useful answer...
I Got Tired of Not Understanding AI Jargon. Here’s What Actually Happens When You Hit Enter.
Dev.to · Saumya Agrawal 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 12h ago
I Got Tired of Not Understanding AI Jargon. Here’s What Actually Happens When You Hit Enter.
There's a massive gap between knowing how to use AI and knowing what you're actually using. I lived...
Four filters I apply when pulling HuggingFace models into an AI tools directory
Dev.to · MORINAGA 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 13h ago
Four filters I apply when pulling HuggingFace models into an AI tools directory
HuggingFace has 900k+ models. Here's the four-filter chain I use to pick what surfaces on aiappdex.com, and what each filter actually catches.
I Built an AI Job Board Processing 10K+ Listings Daily Here's the Real Architecture
Dev.to · Abdul Rehman 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 13h ago
I Built an AI Job Board Processing 10K+ Listings Daily Here's the Real Architecture
The production architecture decisions behind a Next.js + OpenAI job board handling 10K+ daily listings with cost-efficient LLM scoring.
# Securing API Tokens: Protecting Your AI Applications from Credential Leakage
Dev.to · Joseph Budinger 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 13h ago
# Securing API Tokens: Protecting Your AI Applications from Credential Leakage
As organizations increasingly integrate large language models (LLMs) into applications, API tokens...
Hardening LLM Apps in TypeScript: 11 Threat Detectors with resk-llm-ts
Dev.to · RESK 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 15h ago
Hardening LLM Apps in TypeScript: 11 Threat Detectors with resk-llm-ts
Open-source TypeScript security toolkit for LLM apps. 11 threat detectors, Express/Hono/OpenAI middleware.
LLM API debugging checklist
Dev.to · plasma 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 16h ago
LLM API debugging checklist
When an LLM feature breaks in production, my first instinct used to be: "the model got worse." That...
Introducing correctover-patronus: 6-Dimensional Verification for Patronus AI
Dev.to · correctover 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 16h ago
Introducing correctover-patronus: 6-Dimensional Verification for Patronus AI
The Problem LLM evaluation tools like Patronus AI excel at hallucination detection,...
Stop Guessing: Guaranteed Structured Output from LLMs in Node.js
Dev.to · Hardik Mehta 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 16h ago
Stop Guessing: Guaranteed Structured Output from LLMs in Node.js
Stop Parsing LLM JSON. The Backend Already Knows Better. If you've built anything with...
How I Built a Production-Ready RAG Chatbot with LangChain & Qdrant
Dev.to · Darshit Radadiya 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 16h ago
How I Built a Production-Ready RAG Chatbot with LangChain & Qdrant
How I Built a Production-Ready RAG Chatbot with LangChain & Qdrant Tags: python, ai,...
RAG with Spring Boot — Embeddings and Vector Search Step by Step (2026)
Dev.to · Alkademy 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 16h ago
RAG with Spring Boot — Embeddings and Vector Search Step by Step (2026)
Canonical URL: Republished from munonye.com. Full code on GitHub. Learn how to build a RAG Spring...
Notes: Memory, Context, and Large Language Models (LLMs)
Dev.to · Vladimir Panov 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 17h ago
Notes: Memory, Context, and Large Language Models (LLMs)
Notes following a discussion on how memory works in language models - and how it could be improved:...
I gave a brand-new AI the memory of all my old chats, here's the free tool I built to do it.
Dev.to · Arya Koste 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 17h ago
I gave a brand-new AI the memory of all my old chats, here's the free tool I built to do it.
My AI conversations were scattered across three apps that couldn't remember each other. So I built a...
Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 [03:59:05]
Dev.to · anon1 anon1 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 18h ago
Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 [03:59:05]
Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 ...
Streaming vs Batching LLM Responses: A Cost and Latency Analysis
Dev.to · kapil Maheshwari 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 19h ago
Streaming vs Batching LLM Responses: A Cost and Latency Analysis
Explore the trade-offs between streaming and batching LLM responses to optimize costs and latency for your startup.
How We Translate 300-Page Books Using Claude Without Hitting Token Limits
Dev.to · 龚旭东 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 19h ago
How We Translate 300-Page Books Using Claude Without Hitting Token Limits
Breaking long documents into overlapping chunks, preserving context, and reassembling with...
A simple way to test model fallbacks with RouterBase
Dev.to · routerbasecom 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 19h ago
A simple way to test model fallbacks with RouterBase
Fallback logic is easier to reason about when the application has one request shape and the model...
Open-Source LLM APIs Beat Self-Hosting. Here's the Math.
Dev.to · RileyKim 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 21h ago
Open-Source LLM APIs Beat Self-Hosting. Here's the Math.
So here's what happened: open-Source LLM APIs Beat Self-Hosting. Here's the Math. Last quarter I sat...
Building a Production RAG Pipeline with Hybrid Retrieval and LangChain
Dev.to · Hector Hernandez Cruz 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 21h ago
Building a Production RAG Pipeline with Hybrid Retrieval and LangChain
Most RAG tutorials get you 70% of the way there. This is about the other 30% that actually matters in...
Simon Willison's Blog 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 22h ago
Quoting Anthropic
We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will
[AI] Practical QLoRA Fine-tuning: Axolotl & Unsloth | SLM Playbook
Dev.to · Tuấn Anh 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 22h ago
[AI] Practical QLoRA Fine-tuning: Axolotl & Unsloth | SLM Playbook
← Series hub ← Previous | Next → Full-parameter fine-tuning of a large language model is a luxury....
I built a tool that cuts Claude/ChatGPT token usage by 97% — here's how it works
Dev.to · Rohith Matam 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 23h ago
I built a tool that cuts Claude/ChatGPT token usage by 97% — here's how it works
The Problem You're debugging a bug. You open Claude. You paste 10 files. You hit the context...
Serverless AI in a Browser Tab: Java WebAssembly + Local WebGPU LLMs
Dev.to · vishalmysore 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Serverless AI in a Browser Tab: Java WebAssembly + Local WebGPU LLMs
A deep technical whitepaper on building a zero-infrastructure RAG architecture where the...
Simon Willison's Blog 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
What's new in Claude Sonnet 5
What's new in Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Sonnet 5 came out this morning . I always head straight for the "what's new" developer docs because they tend to have more
Don't Let Your LLM Wing It: Building a Knowledge Base That Actually Knows Things
Dev.to · hugolesta 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Don't Let Your LLM Wing It: Building a Knowledge Base That Actually Knows Things
A field guide to provisioning a Bedrock Knowledge Base on Aurora pgvector with Terraform, then keeping it in sync with a GitHub Actions workflow that ships docs
Building LSTMs with PyTorch and Lightning AI Part 7: Resuming Training with Checkpoints
Dev.to · Rijul Rajesh 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Building LSTMs with PyTorch and Lightning AI Part 7: Resuming Training with Checkpoints
In the previous article, we used TensorBoard to analyze the training process. Based on the graphs, we...
Debugging Benchmark: DeepSeek V4 Pro vs MiMo V2.5 Pro
Dev.to · Stanislav 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Debugging Benchmark: DeepSeek V4 Pro vs MiMo V2.5 Pro
A real-world comparison of two LLMs on a genuine race condition bug from GitHub ...
How I'm re-discovering computer science with LLM revolution
Dev.to · popiol 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
How I'm re-discovering computer science with LLM revolution
I've been in this business for years and the best (or worst?) thing is that once I gain enough...
Running Chinese LLMs at Scale: DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi & GLM
Dev.to · fiercedash 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Running Chinese LLMs at Scale: DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi & GLM
Running Chinese LLMs at Scale: DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi & GLM I've been running production workloads...
mcpgen: Turn any OpenAPI spec into an MCP server in seconds
Dev.to · 56 Prince Pal 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
mcpgen: Turn any OpenAPI spec into an MCP server in seconds
I got tired of manually writing MCP tools for every REST endpoint I wanted to expose to an LLM. So I...