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Explain how transformers generate text
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Write zero-shot and few-shot prompts
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Call LLM APIs with function/tool use
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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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Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Video Summarization
An LLM cannot directly understand a video file (.mp4, .avi, etc.). Continue reading on Medium »
Two-Order Definition: What It Is and How Concepts Are Defined After Artificial Sapiens
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Two-Order Definition: What It Is and How Concepts Are Defined After Artificial Sapiens
One concept is no longer defined by one species. Continue reading on Medium »
Tokens and Embeddings
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Tokens and Embeddings
Chapter 2 of Hands-On Large Language Models: Deconstructing the representation pipeline from raw text to token IDs and vector embeddings Continue reading on Med
Tokens and Embeddings
Medium · Deep Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Tokens and Embeddings
Chapter 2 of Hands-On Large Language Models: Deconstructing the representation pipeline from raw text to token IDs and vector embeddings Continue reading on Med
Tokens and Embeddings
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Tokens and Embeddings
Chapter 2 of Hands-On Large Language Models: Deconstructing the representation pipeline from raw text to token IDs and vector embeddings Continue reading on Med
I Benchmarked Chinese vs US AI Models: The Numbers Don't Lie
Dev.to · gentlenode 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
I Benchmarked Chinese vs US AI Models: The Numbers Don't Lie
I Benchmarked Chinese vs US AI Models: The Numbers Don't Lie I've spent the last three months...
The 5% Router Tax: What Hosted LLM Gateways Charge For (and How to Self-Host It)
Dev.to · Lynkr 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
The 5% Router Tax: What Hosted LLM Gateways Charge For (and How to Self-Host It)
Disclosure: I maintain Lynkr, the self-hosted gateway discussed in the second half. OpenRouter and...
[GPT 5.5 UPDATE] 5 Dead Giveaways You Are Reading AI-Generated Text
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
[GPT 5.5 UPDATE] 5 Dead Giveaways You Are Reading AI-Generated Text
No, the em-dash is not always a tell. Continue reading on Medium »
Granite Docling: A 258M Model That Parses Documents Better Than Models Ten Times Its Size
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Granite Docling: A 258M Model That Parses Documents Better Than Models Ten Times Its Size
Most document AI throws a giant general-purpose model at the page. Continue reading on Medium »
Granite Docling: A 258M Model That Parses Documents Better Than Models Ten Times Its Size
Medium · Data Science 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Granite Docling: A 258M Model That Parses Documents Better Than Models Ten Times Its Size
Most document AI throws a giant general-purpose model at the page. Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
What Is Generative AI, Really? A Plain English Answer
You have almost certainly used generative AI this week. Maybe you asked ChatGPT to shorten an email, or watched a tool turn one sentence… Continue reading on Me
Run Local LLMs with OpenCode CLI (Windows)
Medium · DevOps 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Run Local LLMs with OpenCode CLI (Windows)
OpenCode CLI is similar harness to as GitHub Copilot or Claude Code, so if you have these configured already configure OpenCode to work… Continue reading on Med
Riding the AI Wave: Key Trends Shaping Our Future.
Dev.to · Srinivas 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Riding the AI Wave: Key Trends Shaping Our Future.
Riding the AI Wave: Key Trends Shaping Our Future Remember when artificial intelligence...
Model Context Protocol Explained: Why MCP Is Not Just Fancier Function Calling
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Model Context Protocol Explained: Why MCP Is Not Just Fancier Function Calling
Every AI application that needs to read files, query a database, or call an API runs into the same integration wall. Without a shared… Continue reading on Mediu
Reddit r/artificial 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Most people don’t know how to use AI properly.
I think the way most people use AI is stupid. They depend on the AI to do everything, even the thinking. They don’t even know the full capability of AI yet. The
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
This ChatGPT Prompt Turned My Business Idea Into a 14-Day Launch Plan
How to Use AI to Build a Faster, More Structured Project Launch Process Continue reading on Medium »
Why AI agents fail reasoning tasks: Token Clustering Theory
Dev.to · Umair Bilal 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Why AI agents fail reasoning tasks: Token Clustering Theory
AI agents fail reasoning tasks on GPT-4o & Claude Opus. My hypothesis: "token clustering" optimization compromises complex LLM reasoning. Here's my fix.
Can You Build an Alternative to LLMs? 8 Months, ~200 Failed Experiments, One Wall. 2
Dev.to · Oleksander 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Can You Build an Alternative to LLMs? 8 Months, ~200 Failed Experiments, One Wall. 2
This is part 2 of a research series documenting an attempt to build something adjacent to — and in...
Agent Tracing with MLflow, LangChain, and Ollama
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Agent Tracing with MLflow, LangChain, and Ollama
Building AI agents and LLM applications is only half the battle; knowing exactly what happens under the hood when a user sends a prompt is… Continue reading on
AI Toolbox Full-Text Search for ChatGPT: Find Any Message in Your History
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
AI Toolbox Full-Text Search for ChatGPT: Find Any Message in Your History
AI Toolbox (formerly ChatGPT Toolbox) adds full-text search to ChatGPT (chatgpt.com), indexing every message, prompt, and AI response… Continue reading on Mediu
AI Toolbox Full-Text Search for ChatGPT: Find Any Message in Your History
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
AI Toolbox Full-Text Search for ChatGPT: Find Any Message in Your History
AI Toolbox (formerly ChatGPT Toolbox) adds full-text search to ChatGPT (chatgpt.com), indexing every message, prompt, and AI response… Continue reading on Mediu
The Secret Of Why These Eleven Words Are Prominently Included When You Ask AI To Write A Creative Story
Forbes Innovation 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
The Secret Of Why These Eleven Words Are Prominently Included When You Ask AI To Write A Creative Story
Latest AI mystery is that there are 11 specific nouns used frequently by LLMs when creating short stories. Why those words? An AI insider analysis and scoop.
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
SQL AI Database Solutions: Building a Safe Text-to-SQL App with Streamlit and Hugging Face
TL;DR: I built a working "talk to your database" app: you ask a question in plain English, an LLM (via the free Hugging Face Inference API) writes the SQL, a gu
Beam Search from scratch: greedy vs beam vs sampling
Dev.to · Devanshu Biswas 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Beam Search from scratch: greedy vs beam vs sampling
When a language model or a translation decoder writes text, it never hands you a finished sentence....
Self-Discover: let the model design its own reasoning plan
Dev.to · Devanshu Biswas 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Self-Discover: let the model design its own reasoning plan
Most reasoning prompts do the same thing to every problem. Chain-of-thought staples "let's think step...
I Checked If ChatGPT Knew My Product Existed. The Answer Broke Something Loose.
Medium · SEO 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
I Checked If ChatGPT Knew My Product Existed. The Answer Broke Something Loose.
Rahul ran the test on a last night, mostly out of curiosity. He opened a private ChatGPT window and typed the exact question he figured a… Continue reading on M
I Checked If ChatGPT Knew My Product Existed. The Answer Broke Something Loose.
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
I Checked If ChatGPT Knew My Product Existed. The Answer Broke Something Loose.
Rahul ran the test on a last night, mostly out of curiosity. He opened a private ChatGPT window and typed the exact question he figured a… Continue reading on M
Why Can a Model Learn Without Changing Its Original Weights?
Medium · Deep Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Why Can a Model Learn Without Changing Its Original Weights?
An intuitive journey through LoRA, low-dimensional subspaces, and the mathematics behind parameter-efficient fine-tuning. Continue reading on Medium »
How I Cut My LLM Costs 40x by Switching Off OpenAI This Month
Dev.to · bolddeck 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
How I Cut My LLM Costs 40x by Switching Off OpenAI This Month
How I Cut My LLM Costs 40x by Switching Off OpenAI This Month Let me tell you a quick story. Last...
Your AI Forgets Everything. Here's How Cognee Fixes It.
Dev.to · Divyesh 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Your AI Forgets Everything. Here's How Cognee Fixes It.
Have you ever noticed this? You explain your project to an AI chatbot, have a great conversation,...
How AI models claim that they are the BEST?
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
How AI models claim that they are the BEST?
Every AI company says their model is the best. Continue reading on Medium »
3 LLM Backends, 1 RTX 3090: Who Wins the RAM-Spill Test?
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
3 LLM Backends, 1 RTX 3090: Who Wins the RAM-Spill Test?
llama.cpp, Ollama, and vLLM benchmarked across 5 models (1B to 117B) on a single 24GB card — vLLM wins concurrency decisively, then fails… Continue reading on M
📦 AI Context Engineering (Part 2): Tokens, Context Windows & Memory - Why More Context Isn't Always Better
Dev.to · Fazal Mansuri 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
📦 AI Context Engineering (Part 2): Tokens, Context Windows & Memory - Why More Context Isn't Always Better
In Part 1, we learned that building great AI applications isn't just about writing better...
Tool-Calling SLMs in 2026: Why a Tiny Fine-Tuned Model Beat a 175B Baseline by 51 Points
Medium · Data Science 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Tool-Calling SLMs in 2026: Why a Tiny Fine-Tuned Model Beat a 175B Baseline by 51 Points
A 350M-parameter model scored 77.55% on ToolBench and left a 175B baseline at 26%. Here is what that result really shows, and how to build… Continue reading on
AI’s Funniest, Most Insane Behaviors: They Did Exactly What You Asked. That’s the Problem.
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
AI’s Funniest, Most Insane Behaviors: They Did Exactly What You Asked. That’s the Problem.
A boat caug​ht fire, went the‍ wrong dir⁠ection,‌ smashed​ into other boats, circled a lagoon for the e‌ntire race and‍ scor‌e⁠d 20%… Continue reading on Data S
AI’s Funniest, Most Insane Behaviors: They Did Exactly What You Asked. That’s the Problem.
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
AI’s Funniest, Most Insane Behaviors: They Did Exactly What You Asked. That’s the Problem.
A boat caug​ht fire, went the‍ wrong dir⁠ection,‌ smashed​ into other boats, circled a lagoon for the e‌ntire race and‍ scor‌e⁠d 20%… Continue reading on Data S
vLLM vs llama.cpp vs Ollama: What Happens When Your Model Doesn't Fit in 24GB VRAM
Dev.to · Arsen Apostolov 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
vLLM vs llama.cpp vs Ollama: What Happens When Your Model Doesn't Fit in 24GB VRAM
TL;DR Benchmarked llama.cpp, Ollama, and vLLM across 5 models (1B to 116.8B params) on one...
Cutting the Hype: An Engineering Protocol for Tracking LLM Innovations
Dev.to · Next Big Creative 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Cutting the Hype: An Engineering Protocol for Tracking LLM Innovations
Navigating the constant influx of AI news requires a systematic filter built for builders, not...
ChatGPT Mega Prompt For Deep Work Analysis
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
ChatGPT Mega Prompt For Deep Work Analysis
Most people use ChatGPT like Google. Continue reading on Medium »
MedGemma Challenge Submission
Medium · Data Science 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
MedGemma Challenge Submission
LLM-Enabled Genomic Analysis Continue reading on Medium »
MedGemma Challenge Submission
Medium · Python 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
MedGemma Challenge Submission
LLM-Enabled Genomic Analysis Continue reading on Medium »
AI Fundamentals - Part 2: Why AI Gets Things Right... and Wrong
Dev.to · Vishwajeet Kondi 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
AI Fundamentals - Part 2: Why AI Gets Things Right... and Wrong
In Part 1, we learned how an LLM turns your prompt into a response. It all comes down to predicting...
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Semantic Caching for LLM Apps: Cut Token Spend 40-80%
Originally published on AI Tech Connect . What semantic caching actually is Most LLM applications answer the same questions over and over, phrased slightly diff
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Self-Host Open LLMs with vLLM: A Throughput and Latency Playbook
Originally published on AI Tech Connect . When self-hosting on vLLM beats an API Every team that ships a language-model feature eventually faces the same fork i
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
GLM-5.2: 744B Open Weights Top the Intelligence Index
Originally published on AI Tech Connect . What builders need to know Open weights took the lead. Released on 13 June 2026, GLM-5.2 from Z.ai is now the top open
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
100 AI Prompts Every Freelancer Should Bookmark
If you’ve used ChatGPT or Claude even once, you already know the frustrating part: getting a useful output depends entirely on how well… Continue reading on Med
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
I Built an AI Feed, Then Spent Most of the Time Fighting Bad Input
I thought I was building an AI app. Turns out, I was building a garbage sorting machine with embeddings. PROJECT REPOSITORY <a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynam
Semantic Caching: How Stochastic Fixation Freezes LLM Reconstruction Errors
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Semantic Caching: How Stochastic Fixation Freezes LLM Reconstruction Errors
The application layer that turns one random sample into a thousand users’ reality Continue reading on Medium »