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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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Inside the Machine’s Mood: Exploring the Emotional Circuits that drive AI Behavior
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Inside the Machine’s Mood: Exploring the Emotional Circuits that drive AI Behavior
Anyone who has interacted with an LLM knows there is an emotional component to the interaction. LLMs are “happy” to assist you with your… Continue reading on To
Mamba Unboxed: The State Space Model That’s Quietly Replacing Attention
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Mamba Unboxed: The State Space Model That’s Quietly Replacing Attention
Attention is not all you need. Turns out, sometimes you need a snake. Continue reading on AI Advances »
Mamba Unboxed: The State Space Model That’s Quietly Replacing Attention
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Mamba Unboxed: The State Space Model That’s Quietly Replacing Attention
Attention is not all you need. Turns out, sometimes you need a snake. Continue reading on AI Advances »
Mamba Unboxed: The State Space Model That’s Quietly Replacing Attention
Medium · Data Science 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Mamba Unboxed: The State Space Model That’s Quietly Replacing Attention
Attention is not all you need. Turns out, sometimes you need a snake. Continue reading on AI Advances »
Mamba Unboxed: The State Space Model That’s Quietly Replacing Attention
Medium · Deep Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Mamba Unboxed: The State Space Model That’s Quietly Replacing Attention
Attention is not all you need. Turns out, sometimes you need a snake. Continue reading on AI Advances »
Most Employees Are Learning AI By Osmosis These Days
Forbes Innovation 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Most Employees Are Learning AI By Osmosis These Days
Employees, being told to work alongside AI, are forced to learn about it on their own.
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Top 5 Mistakes Developers Make When Building LLM Apps
You have built a few LLM projects maybe a chatbot for a college assignment, a summarizer for a hackathon, or a side project you pushed to… Continue reading on M
Medium · RAG 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Top 5 Mistakes Developers Make When Building LLM Apps
You have built a few LLM projects maybe a chatbot for a college assignment, a summarizer for a hackathon, or a side project you pushed to… Continue reading on M
You can’t engineer Context that doesn’t exist yet
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
You can’t engineer Context that doesn’t exist yet
I did everything right. Continue reading on Medium »
Optimizing LLM Token Usage with MCP and Smart Tool Filtering in Spring AI
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Optimizing LLM Token Usage with MCP and Smart Tool Filtering in Spring AI
What really happens when your Spring Boot app decides which tools to send to the LLM — and why getting it wrong costs you money? Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Beginner guide for anyone on ChatGPT who has never touched CODEX before. No terminal, no tech talk. Ten easy steps with a plain explanation and a tip
1. Get the Codex app onto your machine. You go to http://openai.com , find Codex up in the menu, hit the install button and grab the build for Mac or Windows I
I’m Just a Designer. I Built a Story Engine Anyway.
Medium · Startup 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I’m Just a Designer. I Built a Story Engine Anyway.
What AI fiction is getting architecturally wrong, and what I learned breaking it apart to find out. Continue reading on Medium »
The Reasoner’s Dilemma: How “Overthinking” Breaks AI Executive Functions
Medium · Data Science 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Reasoner’s Dilemma: How “Overthinking” Breaks AI Executive Functions
Why generating 75,000 tokens to solve a simple logic puzzle proves that Reasoning is NOT Rule Adherence. Continue reading on Medium »
The Reasoner’s Dilemma: How “Overthinking” Breaks AI Executive Functions
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Reasoner’s Dilemma: How “Overthinking” Breaks AI Executive Functions
Why generating 75,000 tokens to solve a simple logic puzzle proves that Reasoning is NOT Rule Adherence. Continue reading on Medium »
Who wrote similar?
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Who wrote similar?
As a writer, I keep running into a deceptively simple question: who wrote something similar? Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Building a Real-Time Trend-to-Draft Pipeline: Beyond Simple GPT Wrappers | 0416-2237
The Context Problem in AI Content Most AI writing tools suffer from a 'Context Decay.' They rely on training data that is months or years old, or at best, a sta
The Unbearable Lightness of “Just Search”
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Unbearable Lightness of “Just Search”
Why calling modern AI “just search” explains far less than people think. Continue reading on Medium »
How technology skills like Python and AI can secure your future income
Medium · Python 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How technology skills like Python and AI can secure your future income
Most people think future-proofing their income means learning more tools. Continue reading on Artificial Intelligence in Plain English »
Build and Connect Your First MCP Server to OpenCode on Windows
Medium · Python 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Build and Connect Your First MCP Server to OpenCode on Windows
How to build your own MCP server from scratch using Python, and how to make it available to an LLM like Qwen 3.5 in OpenCode. Continue reading on Generative AI
Build and Connect Your First MCP Server to OpenCode on Windows
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Build and Connect Your First MCP Server to OpenCode on Windows
How to build your own MCP server from scratch using Python, and how to make it available to an LLM like Qwen 3.5 in OpenCode. Continue reading on Generative AI
Unlock Creative Power with a 400+ Suno AI Product Pack: The Ultimate SunoAI Prompt Collection for…
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Unlock Creative Power with a 400+ Suno AI Product Pack: The Ultimate SunoAI Prompt Collection for…
400+ sunoai prompt pack Continue reading on Medium »
All About Claude Opus 4.7 Features
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
All About Claude Opus 4.7 Features
Continue reading on Medium »
Beyond OpenAI: Evolving My Resume AI Project with RAG, Fine-Tuning & LangGraph
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Beyond OpenAI: Evolving My Resume AI Project with RAG, Fine-Tuning & LangGraph
In one of my earlier blogs, I built a resume analysis system using OpenAI APIs. It worked well — clean prompts, quick responses, and a… Continue reading on Medi
Beyond OpenAI: Evolving My Resume AI Project with RAG, Fine-Tuning & LangGraph
Medium · RAG 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Beyond OpenAI: Evolving My Resume AI Project with RAG, Fine-Tuning & LangGraph
In one of my earlier blogs, I built a resume analysis system using OpenAI APIs. It worked well — clean prompts, quick responses, and a… Continue reading on Medi
The Fundamental Architecture of LLMs: A Perspective Through Information Theory and Lossy…
Medium · Programming 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Fundamental Architecture of LLMs: A Perspective Through Information Theory and Lossy…
Introduction Continue reading on Medium »
The Fundamental Architecture of LLMs: A Perspective Through Information Theory and Lossy…
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Fundamental Architecture of LLMs: A Perspective Through Information Theory and Lossy…
Introduction Continue reading on Medium »
The Silent Shift No One Warned You About
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Silent Shift No One Warned You About
How ChatGPT Is Quietly Replacing Entry-Level Jobs and What You Should Do About It Continue reading on Activated Thinker »
AI Got Weird
Medium · Programming 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI Got Weird
I asked AI a simple question about a bug during one of our incidents (which seem to be getting more frequent these days). Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Understanding Transformers Part 8: Shared Weights in Self-Attention
In the previous article , we started calculating the self-attention values. Let’s now calculate the self-attention values for the word “go” . We do not need to
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Claude vs GPT-4o for Autonomous Agent Work: 30 Days of Real Data
Not a benchmark. Not a vibe check. Thirty days of running both models on the same autonomous agent workloads — content production, code generation, API integrat
Anthropic Didn’t Raise Claude’s 4.7 Prices. It Just Made Them 35% More Expensive.
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Anthropic Didn’t Raise Claude’s 4.7 Prices. It Just Made Them 35% More Expensive.
Anthropic just released a new version of its LLM: Claude 4.7. Continue reading on Medium »
Big Tobacco Needed Forty Years of Think Tanks. Musk Just Needs a System Prompt.
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Big Tobacco Needed Forty Years of Think Tanks. Musk Just Needs a System Prompt.
By Penn Sharp·Editor-in-Chief Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Stop Looking for the “Best” LLM: Make Harmony
In the fast-paced world of Artificial Intelligence, the title of “The Best Model” changes almost weekly. One day a model leads in… Continue reading on Medium »
I found the most easiest explanation to LLMs, this might surprise you
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I found the most easiest explanation to LLMs, this might surprise you
Continue reading on Medium »
TechCrunch AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
OpenAI takes aim at Anthropic with beefed-up Codex that gives it more power over your desktop
OpenAI's agentic coding tool has gotten a major makeover, with a variety of new powers and abilities.
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Building a Fully Local Voice-Controlled AI Agent on an 8GB M1 Mac (Without Melting It)
Hey everyone! 👋 Recently, I took on a challenging assignment for an AI/ML Developer Internship at Mem0. The goal was to build a local, voice-controlled AI agen
Why AUC Is Not Enough: The Case for Retrieval-Grounded Evaluation in Conversational Medical AI
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why AUC Is Not Enough: The Case for Retrieval-Grounded Evaluation in Conversational Medical AI
A Cambridge researcher explains why simply measuring token probabilities can mislead us about the safety of LLM-powered risk assessment… Continue reading on Med
Pressure Makes Diamonds. Math Makes Gemma.
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Pressure Makes Diamonds. Math Makes Gemma.
The List Nobody Talks About Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Claude Opus 4.7 just dropped — here's how to get API access for $2/month
Claude Opus 4.7 Just Dropped — Here's How to Get API Access for $2/Month Anthropicjust released Claude Opus 4.7, and it's all over Hacker News right now (700+ p
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
"5 Underrated Skills Freelancers Can Monetize in 2026: Practical Guide with Case
Written by Dionysus in the Valhalla Arena 5 Underrated Skills Freelancers Can Monetize in 2026: Practical Guide with Case Studies The freelance economy has matu
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
claude opus 4.7 just dropped. here's what runs locally for free.
Anthropic just released Claude Opus 4.7. It's their best coding model yet — 13% better than Opus 4.6 on their internal 93-task benchmark, better vision, stronge
InfoQ AI/ML 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Google Opens Gemma 4 Under Apache 2.0 with Multimodal and Agentic Capabilities
Google has announced the release of Gemma 4, a series of open-weight AI models, including variants with 2B, 4B, 26B, and 31B parameters, under the Apache 2.0 li
A new way to explore the web with AI Mode in Chrome
Google AI Blog 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
A new way to explore the web with AI Mode in Chrome
Today’s upgrades for AI Mode in Chrome transform how you interact with the web
Search Engine Journal 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
ChatGPT Often Retrieves But Rarely Cites Reddit Pages, Data Shows via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
New Ahrefs data shows Reddit pages appeared often in ChatGPT retrievals but rarely as visible citations. The post ChatGPT Often Retrieves But Rarely Cites Reddi
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
What It Takes to Train AI Models for Healthcare
In healthcare, data security is indispensable, but it is only one part of the problem. Protecting sensitive information, isolating systems… Continue reading on
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Uncertainty, Clinical Judgment, and the Falling Cost of Intelligence in Healthcare
A year and a half ago, one of the most common criticisms of AI systems was not merely that they made mistakes, but that they made them… Continue reading on Medi
Anthropic Released Claude Opus 4.7 Today and It Might Be the Most Underrated AI Launch This Year
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Anthropic Released Claude Opus 4.7 Today and It Might Be the Most Underrated AI Launch This Year
Smarter code, better image reading, a fresh take on cybersecurity, and a model that finally does what you tell it and below is the full… Continue reading on Med
Deep Technical Guide to LangChain with Working Code Examples
Medium · Data Science 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Deep Technical Guide to LangChain with Working Code Examples
1. Introduction to LangChain Continue reading on Medium »