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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
LLM Engineering
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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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I Tested Kindle-to-NotebookLM on a Real Amazon.com Book
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Tested Kindle-to-NotebookLM on a Real Amazon.com Book
A practical experiment in turning a purchased Kindle Cloud Reader book into AI-readable text for NotebookLM and ChatGPT. Continue reading on Medium »
Reddit r/LocalLLaMA 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Hate Dario Amodei, and everything he stands for.
I am so incredibly sick of this guy‘s fear mongering about open source while fundamentally misunderstanding how it actually works. He recently dropped some argu
Exposing the Limitations of Google Knowledge Graph: Why AI Can Still Struggle to Recognize Human…
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Exposing the Limitations of Google Knowledge Graph: Why AI Can Still Struggle to Recognize Human…
Exposing the Limitations of Google Knowledge Graph: Why AI Can Still Struggle to Recognize Human Identity Continue reading on Medium »
Exposing the Limitations of Google Knowledge Graph: Why AI Can Still Struggle to Recognize Human…
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Exposing the Limitations of Google Knowledge Graph: Why AI Can Still Struggle to Recognize Human…
Exposing the Limitations of Google Knowledge Graph: Why AI Can Still Struggle to Recognize Human Identity Continue reading on Medium »
When Does HyDE Help RAG? I Tested 3 Query Types and It Failed on Two
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
When Does HyDE Help RAG? I Tested 3 Query Types and It Failed on Two
I tested HyDE Retrieval vs Standard vector search on semantic, proprietary, and keyword queries. HyDE won one and quietly made 2 worse. Continue reading on Towa
The Mathematics of Semantic Search
Medium · DevOps 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Mathematics of Semantic Search
How a machine finds meaning: from words, through geometry, to time Continue reading on Medium »
Intelligence Is Not Where We Point
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Intelligence Is Not Where We Point
Functions live in networks, not in parts Continue reading on Medium »
Google A2A Protocol in 2026: Adoption, Hype, and Reality
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Google A2A Protocol in 2026: Adoption, Hype, and Reality
A2A is not dead. It is just not universal. Continue reading on Practical LLM Systems »
Google A2A Protocol in 2026: Adoption, Hype, and Reality
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Google A2A Protocol in 2026: Adoption, Hype, and Reality
A2A is not dead. It is just not universal. Continue reading on Practical LLM Systems »
Google A2A Protocol in 2026: Adoption, Hype, and Reality
Medium · Programming 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Google A2A Protocol in 2026: Adoption, Hype, and Reality
A2A is not dead. It is just not universal. Continue reading on Practical LLM Systems »
RAG na Prática: Como Construir um Sistema de Busca Inteligente com LLMs
Medium · Data Science 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
RAG na Prática: Como Construir um Sistema de Busca Inteligente com LLMs
Você já perguntou algo para um ChatGPT e recebeu uma resposta confiante e completamente errada? Esse problema tem nome: alucinação. E tem… Continue reading on M
RAG na Prática: Como Construir um Sistema de Busca Inteligente com LLMs
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
RAG na Prática: Como Construir um Sistema de Busca Inteligente com LLMs
Você já perguntou algo para um ChatGPT e recebeu uma resposta confiante e completamente errada? Esse problema tem nome: alucinação. E tem… Continue reading on M
RAG na Prática: Como Construir um Sistema de Busca Inteligente com LLMs
Medium · RAG 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
RAG na Prática: Como Construir um Sistema de Busca Inteligente com LLMs
Você já perguntou algo para um ChatGPT e recebeu uma resposta confiante e completamente errada? Esse problema tem nome: alucinação. E tem… Continue reading on M
I helped build modern AI. I’d like a word about how they’re selling it to you.
Medium · Startup 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I helped build modern AI. I’d like a word about how they’re selling it to you.
I’m going to keep my name off this for a while, and I want to be upfront about why, because it’s the least interesting kind of secret. Continue reading on Mediu
Looping vs Prompting: When Should You Let the Model Think, and When Should You Control the Process?
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Looping vs Prompting: When Should You Let the Model Think, and When Should You Control the Process?
Large Language Models (LLMs) have fundamentally changed how we build software. Unlike traditional applications, where every decision is… Continue reading on Med
Exploring LangGraph — The Basics
Medium · Python 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Exploring LangGraph — The Basics
I’ve been wanting to explore and build LLM powered agents for awhile now, so figured it was time to explore LangGraph. Continue reading on Medium »
Exploring LangGraph — The Basics
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Exploring LangGraph — The Basics
I’ve been wanting to explore and build LLM powered agents for awhile now, so figured it was time to explore LangGraph. Continue reading on Medium »
Free from-scratch deep learning notes: tensors, attention, and a tiny GPT
Dev.to · Alper GÖÇEN 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Free from-scratch deep learning notes: tensors, attention, and a tiny GPT
I'm an AI PhD student, and I have started writing a free public notebook on how AI models work under...
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Anthropic shipped Fable 5. The US government un-shipped it.
CLAUDE FABLE 5: A FRONTIER LAUNCH CUT SHORT BY EXPORT CONTROLS Continue reading on Medium »
Memora: A Harmonic Memory Representation Balancing Abstraction and Specificity
Microsoft Research 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Memora: A Harmonic Memory Representation Balancing Abstraction and Specificity
AI agents can't remember past conversations. They must constantly reload or retrieve context, which grows less efficient as tasks get longer and more complex. M
Claude on AWS vs Bedrock vs Direct in 2026: The Real Bill
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Claude on AWS vs Bedrock vs Direct in 2026: The Real Bill
Anthropic now sells the exact same Claude models three ways, and the price per token is the least interesting difference between them. Continue reading on Mediu
Your Brain May Know a Deepfake Before You Do
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Your Brain May Know a Deepfake Before You Do
Meta’s TRIBE v2 predicts different brain maps for real and synthetic people. Here’s where. Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · DevOps 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
When Regex Gives Up: Using an LLM to Resolve Config Extraction Ambiguity
If you’ve ever tried to onboard a legacy application to a modern CI/CD platform, you know the real challenge isn’t writing the pipeline —… Continue reading on M
What is fine-tuning? How the same AI becomes a doctor, a lawyer, and a customer support agent
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
What is fine-tuning? How the same AI becomes a doctor, a lawyer, and a customer support agent
Every major AI starts as the same general model. Fine-tuning is how companies turn that into something that feels completely different… Continue reading on Medi
What is fine-tuning? How the same AI becomes a doctor, a lawyer, and a customer support agent
Medium · Data Science 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
What is fine-tuning? How the same AI becomes a doctor, a lawyer, and a customer support agent
Every major AI starts as the same general model. Fine-tuning is how companies turn that into something that feels completely different… Continue reading on Medi
What is fine-tuning? How the same AI becomes a doctor, a lawyer, and a customer support agent
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
What is fine-tuning? How the same AI becomes a doctor, a lawyer, and a customer support agent
Every major AI starts as the same general model. Fine-tuning is how companies turn that into something that feels completely different… Continue reading on Medi
Your First LLM API Call Will Confuse You — Unless You Understand Tokens
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Your First LLM API Call Will Confuse You — Unless You Understand Tokens
A practical breakdown of the unit that controls your LLM’s cost, speed, and memory — written for Java and Spring Boot developers. Continue reading on CodeX »
Context Warp Drive: deterministic folding for long-running LLM agents
Dev.to · Jonah T 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Context Warp Drive: deterministic folding for long-running LLM agents
Context Warp Drive is an open-source TypeScript library for keeping long-running LLM agents under the...
Building a Flexible AI Voice Agent: A RAG-Driven Learning Project with ElevenLabs, n8n, and…
Medium · RAG 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Building a Flexible AI Voice Agent: A RAG-Driven Learning Project with ElevenLabs, n8n, and…
When exploring the world of conversational AI, building a text-based chatbot is usually the first milestone. But adding a low-latency… Continue reading on Mediu
I Improved Retrieval by 20%, the Pipeline Didn’t Budge: Unexpected Lessons from a 725-Question…
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Improved Retrieval by 20%, the Pipeline Didn’t Budge: Unexpected Lessons from a 725-Question…
Three hypotheses confirmed. Two rejected. The rejections taught me more. Continue reading on Medium »
Reddit r/artificial 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Meta was secretly running on Google's Gemini the whole time and then got cut off for using too much
Saw this article today and it genuinely surprised me Meta has been using Gemini for customer service, ad tools, content moderation, all of it. and apparently ch
Processamento Estritamente Ordenado em Larga Escala: Padrão FIFO Multiplexado com Azure Service Bus…
Medium · Python 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Processamento Estritamente Ordenado em Larga Escala: Padrão FIFO Multiplexado com Azure Service Bus…
Sistemas distribuídos que dependem de mensageria assíncrona destroem nativamente a garantia de ordenação cronológica. Quando um domínio de… Continue reading on
Is Anthropic’s Fable 5 Coming Back This Week?
Forbes Innovation 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Is Anthropic’s Fable 5 Coming Back This Week?
Anthropic’s Fable 5, one of the AI industry’s most sought-after models, may be headed back to general access as soon as this week, though the return is not yet
Claude Haiku vs Sonnet vs Opus: Which One Should You Actually Use? (2026)
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Claude Haiku vs Sonnet vs Opus: Which One Should You Actually Use? (2026)
I stared at Anthropic’s model list way longer than I’d like to admit. Here’s the simple rule I wish someone had just told me. Continue reading on Towards AI »
Experimento 1 — ¿Qué fuentes usa la IA para recomendaciones en español?
Medium · SEO 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Experimento 1 — ¿Qué fuentes usa la IA para recomendaciones en español?
Analizamos 1.610 fuentes citadas por ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overview y Perplexity en tres mercados hispanohablantes (Argentina, España… Continue reading on
Building a 200M Parameter Time Series LLM from Scratch
Medium · Python 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Building a 200M Parameter Time Series LLM from Scratch
Decoder-only patched transformer for zero-shot forecasting Continue reading on Level Up Coding »
Train your first Text JEPA model [Tutorial]
Medium · NLP 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Train your first Text JEPA model [Tutorial]
If you follow Yann LeCun, you know he frequently argues that auto-regressive LLMs are a dead-end for reaching true world intelligence… Continue reading on Level
How ChatGPT Became My Exercise Journal
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How ChatGPT Became My Exercise Journal
The better my questions became, the more useful ChatGPT’s answers became. Continue reading on ChatGPT & Beyond »
Reddit r/devops 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
LiteLLM is becoming much more than just an LLM gateway. Has anyone actually deployed its Datadog integration in production?
I've been evaluating LiteLLM's Datadog integration in a test environment, and it looks much more comprehensive than I expected. Beyond basic logging, it include
It’s time, Sam, it’s time.
Reddit r/LocalLLaMA 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
It’s time, Sam, it’s time.
Mostly /s but, I mean….. I’m no CEO…. but it seems like this would be the absolute perfect time to drop a super powerful GPT-OSS
Running LiteLLM as a Proxy in Front of Multiple LLM Providers
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Running LiteLLM as a Proxy in Front of Multiple LLM Providers
A practical guide to consolidating LLM provider access for individual developers and platform teams. Continue reading on Data Science Collective »
An AI tool to scrape voices of popular characters/people.
Medium · Python 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
An AI tool to scrape voices of popular characters/people.
We all know how powerful llms have become and in next 4 months we would probably have models far smarter than current models. Continue reading on Medium »
11,000 Inference Runs, 22 SLMs, One GPU: An Empirical Breakdown of Local Code Generation
Medium · Programming 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
11,000 Inference Runs, 22 SLMs, One GPU: An Empirical Breakdown of Local Code Generation
An execution-based telemetry study evaluating 22 open-weights code models across functional correctness, structural fidelity, and hardware… Continue reading on
11,000 Inference Runs, 22 SLMs, One GPU: An Empirical Breakdown of Local Code Generation
Medium · Python 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
11,000 Inference Runs, 22 SLMs, One GPU: An Empirical Breakdown of Local Code Generation
An execution-based telemetry study evaluating 22 open-weights code models across functional correctness, structural fidelity, and hardware… Continue reading on
How to Build an LLMO Strategy for SaaS: A Step-by-Step Guide
Medium · SEO 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to Build an LLMO Strategy for SaaS: A Step-by-Step Guide
SaaS teams invest heavily in SEO with a clear goal. Rank higher, drive traffic, and generate leads. Yet many still struggle to show up… Continue reading on Medi
Why Small Language Models Changed the Way I Build AI Applications
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why Small Language Models Changed the Way I Build AI Applications
I used to think bigger models were always the answer. After deploying real AI applications, I realized that smaller language models often… Continue reading on A
A large number of GPT-5.6 hands-on tests have leaked: it may debut this Thursday
Hackernoon 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
A large number of GPT-5.6 hands-on tests have leaked: it may debut this Thursday
OpenAI's kindle-alpha and GPT-Bidi-1 are nearly here. Here's what the leaks, routing logs, and early demos actually tell us — and what's still speculation.
How to Get Cited in LLMs: A Practical Guide for Shopify D2C Brands
Medium · SEO 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to Get Cited in LLMs: A Practical Guide for Shopify D2C Brands
Most Shopify brands optimising for AI search are asking the wrong question. They are asking “how do I rank better?” when they should be… Continue reading on Med