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Deep dives into GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama and the transformers powering modern AI
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LLM Foundations
beginner
Explain how transformers generate text
Prompt Craft
beginner
Write zero-shot and few-shot prompts
LLM Engineering
intermediate
Call LLM APIs with function/tool use
Fine-tuning LLMs
advanced
Prepare fine-tuning datasets
Multimodal LLMs
advanced
Use GPT-4V / Claude Vision for image understanding
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Medium · AI
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3d ago
SYLON9.0: Chapter 7
The 8 Evaluation Axes and the Formation of 64 Coordinates Continue reading on SYLON : An Architecture for Expanding and Deepening Generative AI Thinking »

Dev.to · Mattias chaw
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3d ago
Leveraging Chinese AI Models: A Developer's Guide to DeepSeek and Beyond
Leveraging Chinese AI Models: A Developer's Guide to DeepSeek and Beyond In today's...

Medium · LLM
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3d ago
Manual Tool Calling in LangGraph, with Pydantic Doing the Deciding
The prebuilt ReAct agent in LangGraph is convenient right up until you need to know why it picked a tool, or you need a router that isn’t… Continue reading on M

Medium · Machine Learning
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3d ago
The Diffusion LLM That Runs 2.42× Faster Without Re-Pretraining — and Its One Real Catch
Do diffusion language models sacrifice quality for speed? NVIDIA’s July 2 release cut the tax to 1.3 points on average — but code and math… Continue reading on

Medium · LLM
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3d ago
The Diffusion LLM That Runs 2.42× Faster Without Re-Pretraining — and Its One Real Catch
Do diffusion language models sacrifice quality for speed? NVIDIA’s July 2 release cut the tax to 1.3 points on average — but code and math… Continue reading on
Medium · Python
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3d ago
Building BASA: A Modern Indonesian NLP Library for the LLM Era
Why I started building BASA, the challenges of Indonesian NLP tooling, and the design principles behind a library built for modern AI… Continue reading on Mediu
Medium · NLP
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3d ago
Building BASA: A Modern Indonesian NLP Library for the LLM Era
Why I started building BASA, the challenges of Indonesian NLP tooling, and the design principles behind a library built for modern AI… Continue reading on Mediu
Dev.to AI
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3d ago
Local LLM vs Claude: Benchmarking qwen3-coder:30b as a Production Agent Backend
TL;DR Replayed 27 real historical tasks from Jarvis (my LangGraph agent, ~90 tools) through qwen3-coder:30b on an RTX 3090, scored against Claude's actual produ

Medium · AI
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3d ago
Designing a Production-Grade RAG System for PDF Question Answering
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a standard approach for building LLM applications grounded in private or domain-specific… Continue reading on Me
Medium · ChatGPT
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3d ago
10 Ways ChatGPT Can Save You 1 Hour Every Day
Introduction Time is something most of us struggle with. Whether you’re a student, working professional, or someone trying to learn new… Continue reading on Med

Medium · LLM
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3d ago
Can a Local LLM Run My AI Assistant?
I replayed 27 real production tasks through qwen3-coder:30b on my home RTX 3090 to see if a self-hosted model could replace Claude as the… Continue reading on M

Medium · LLM
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3d ago
Claude Didn’t Become a Document Management System. It Finally Got Connected to One.
AI models are brilliant at reasoning, but they’ve always been locked out of the enterprise storage layer. A new architectural shift is… Continue reading on Medi
Dev.to AI
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3d ago
ChatGPT vs. Gemini 2.5: Which Brain Fits Your 2026 Stack?
For the longest time, I hardcoded a single LLM model in my production stack. After months of usage, I realized this was a terrible financial decision. In 2026,
Dev.to AI
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3d ago
I Scored 10,000 Job Listings a Day With GPT-4. Here's What Broke
The first time my scoring pipeline ran against a full day's batch, it took 47 minutes and cost $86. The second run took three hours because half the requests hi
Dev.to AI
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3d ago
Knowledge Distillation: Fit a Big Model's Smarts Into a Small One
🎓 Distill a model yourself (real softmax + real gradient descent): https://dev48v.infy.uk/ai/days/day23-distillation.html The problem: big models are expensive

Dev.to · Marco Reyes
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3d ago
Claude Sonnet 5 vs Fable 5: What I’d Actually Use in Production
I usually test new AI models in a very unglamorous way. Not with benchmark prompts. Not with “build...

Dev.to · Yatin Davra
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3d ago
How I ended up contributing five ways to shape an LLM's output
A few months back I was on a project that needed LLMs to return actual structured data, not prose I'd...

Medium · ChatGPT
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3d ago
10 AI Prompts That Every Professional Should Know
Artificial Intelligence is becoming an essential workplace tool, but the quality of the results you get depends largely on the quality of… Continue reading on M

Medium · LLM
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3d ago
DPO vs SFT vs RLHF: Which Training Method Does Your Model Actually Need?
Everyone’s fine-tuning. Nobody agrees on how. Here’s the honest breakdown of three methods, when each one earns its complexity, and why… Continue reading on Tow

Medium · AI
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3d ago
DSpark Speculative Decoding Looks Simple, Until You Hit Suffix Decay
Every speculative decoding system I’ve looked at makes the same trade. You either get a drafter that’s accurate but slow, or fast but… Continue reading on Mediu

Dev.to · plasma
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3d ago
The Retry Setup I Use for LLM APIs Without Accidentally Duplicating User Actions
Retries look simple until an LLM call is allowed to do something. For a normal read-only API...
Dev.to AI
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3d ago
Building RAG-Powered AI Agents with AgentCore: What the Hands-On Tutorials Don't Tell You
Your vector database is returning results. Your retrieval pipeline is clean. But when you connect AgentCore to your production knowledge base, the answers drift

Medium · AI
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3d ago
From Tools to Workers: The Shift in Artificial Intelligence
The way we think about AI is changing — not incrementally, but fundamentally. We’re no longer building smarter hammers. We’re building… Continue reading on Medi

Dev.to · noxlie
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3d ago
Why I Switched from ChatGPT to Private AI Alternatives in 2026 — And How I Did It for $0
Why I Switched from ChatGPT to Private AI Alternatives in 2026 — And How I Did It for $0 I...
ArXiv cs.AI
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3d ago
PACE: A Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Plausible and Actionable Counterfactual Explanations
arXiv:2607.01306v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Counterfactual explanations explain machine learning predictions by identifying minimal input changes that would
ArXiv cs.AI
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3d ago
The Wiola Architecture for Efficient Small Language Models
arXiv:2607.01394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Wiola, a fully original Small Language Model (SLM) architecture built from first principles, sharing
ArXiv cs.AI
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3d ago
CreativityNeuro: Steering Language Model Weights to Improve Divergent Thinking and Reduce Mode Collapse
arXiv:2607.01433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Divergent thinking is a crucial aspect of creativity, yet large language models (LLMs) tend to consistently gene
ArXiv cs.AI
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3d ago
Discrete Diffusion Language Models for Interactive Radiology Report Drafting
arXiv:2607.01436v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion language models, which generate text by denoising a token canvas bidirectionally instead of emitting t
ArXiv cs.AI
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3d ago
Procedural Memory Distillation: Online Reflection for Self-Improving Language Models
arXiv:2607.01480v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), along with recent selfdistillation variants such as SDPO,
Dev.to AI
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3d ago
IA local vs ChatGPT para empresas: qué usar y cuándo
IA local vs ChatGPT para empresas: qué usar y cuándo Como experto en IA local y consultor de tecnología, he visto cómo las empresas se enfrentan a la decisión d

Medium · LLM
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3d ago
MyClaw AI Isn’t Another Chatbot — It’s an AI Employee That Actually Gets Work Done
Most AI tools begin the exact same way. Continue reading on Medium »
Reddit r/artificial
🧠 Large Language Models
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3d ago
Why does AI love the em dash (—)??
Never getting over the fact that AI has claimed the em-dash. My favorite punctuation to use, and now all of the sudden it’s a dead giveaway of AI use. Now I fin
Medium · LLM
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3d ago
RAG in Practice: From Text Search to Vector Databases
I’ve been working through the LLM Zoomcamp by DataTalksClub, and two modules in, the core ideas are clicking into place. Here’s is what I… Continue reading on M
Hacker News
🧠 Large Language Models
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3d ago
AI is 'not smart' so what's next in artificial intelligence?
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6gr0xkyr3o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48769696 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Dev.to AI
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3d ago
5 prompts de IA que todo profesor debería usar en 2026
Ia educacion docentes prompts chatgpt — artículo de Itelnet Consulting 5 Prompts de IA que Todo Profesor Debería Usar en 2026 La integración de la inteligencia

Dev.to · Edward Li
🧠 Large Language Models
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3d ago
OpenRouter vs LiteLLM vs Portkey vs a Managed OpenAI-Compatible Gateway
When developers compare OpenRouter, LiteLLM, Portkey, direct provider APIs, and a managed...

Dev.to · DoremonAI
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3d ago
The 7B Model Revolution: Small AI Is Catching Up to the Giants (July 2026)
7B models now match 70B+ scores from last year, inference costs have dropped 280x, and open-weight models run on your laptop. The small AI revolution is here.

Dev.to · Edward Li
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3d ago
LangChain + OpenAI-Compatible APIs: Debug Base URL Before RAG or Agents
When a LangChain app fails after switching to an OpenAI-compatible API gateway, the problem is often...

Medium · LLM
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3d ago
Outpost: Routing Agent Turns to a Local Model, with Frontier Escalation
We built a proxy that sits between an AI agent and its LLM provider. A small local model answers what it can; anything it can’t gets… Continue reading on Medium

Medium · ChatGPT
🧠 Large Language Models
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3d ago
Outpost: Routing Agent Turns to a Local Model, with Frontier Escalation
We built a proxy that sits between an AI agent and its LLM provider. A small local model answers what it can; anything it can’t gets… Continue reading on Medium
Dev.to AI
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3d ago
Building Business Intelligence Tools with LLM
Business intelligence is shifting from static dashboards to interactive, language-driven interfaces. Instead of learning SQL or navigating drag-and-drop builder
Dev.to AI
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3d ago
Leveraging LLM for Business Intelligence
We are building a conversational BI agent that turns plain English questions into SQL, runs them against a local SQLite database, and summarizes the results for
Dev.to AI
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3d ago
Changes to LLM pricing: SambaNova
Model price changes detected for SambaNova. Details below.

Dev.to · Muhammad Shahrukh
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3d ago
I Stopped Chasing Tutorials and Started Building AI Apps. Here's What Changed.
A year ago, I spent more time watching tutorials than actually building. Every new framework looked...

Medium · AI
🧠 Large Language Models
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3d ago
Claude Sonnet 5 Explained: Features, Use Cases, and Why It Matters in 2026
A beginner-friendly guide to understanding Claude Sonnet 5, its real-world applications, and how it is changing the way people work with… Continue reading on Me
Dev.to AI
🧠 Large Language Models
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3d ago
Breaking Free From AI Vendor Lock-In: A Developer's Notes
Breaking Free From AI Vendor Lock-In: A Developer's Notes I've been writing code for about twelve years now, and if there's one thing that grinds my gears more

Medium · LLM
🧠 Large Language Models
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4d ago
Enterprise LLM Gateway: Route, govern, and secure your AI traffic
Your company uses six different AI providers. OpenAI for ChatGPT, Anthropic for Claude and Groq for speed critical inference. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Machine Learning
🧠 Large Language Models
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4d ago
Beyond Chatbots:
How LLMs Are Quietly Transforming Everyday Business Workflows Continue reading on Medium »
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