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LLM Foundations
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Explain how transformers generate text
Prompt Craft
beginner
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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Reddit r/MachineLearning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
We'll benchmark an Open weights LLM on any GPU you choose — drop your model + hardware and we'll run it. [D]
We run HexGrid Cloud, a platform for deploying open-source models on GPUs, and we're heads-down optimizing our serving/deployment layer. To pressure-test it we'
🚀 Building a 4-in-1 AI Summarizer: One Tool for Meetings, Articles & Code!
Dev.to · Ria saraswat 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
🚀 Building a 4-in-1 AI Summarizer: One Tool for Meetings, Articles & Code!
The Problem In an era of endless meetings, long-form articles, and complex technical...
AI for Drug Discovery — From Target Identification to Molecule Generation to Clinical Trials
Medium · Deep Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
AI for Drug Discovery — From Target Identification to Molecule Generation to Clinical Trials
Issue #38:The six-stage drug discovery pipeline, structure-based target identification, diffusion-based generative molecule design… Continue reading on Medium »
Vision Language Models — When AI Learns to See and Talk (Part 3 of 3)
Dev.to · Vahid Aghajani 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Vision Language Models — When AI Learns to See and Talk (Part 3 of 3)
Originally published on my blog. Cross-posted here with a canonical link. This is Part 3...
AI for Mathematics — Formal Proof Systems, FunSearch, and AI as a Genuine Mathematical Collaborator
Medium · Deep Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
AI for Mathematics — Formal Proof Systems, FunSearch, and AI as a Genuine Mathematical Collaborator
Issue #40: Why full-proof verification is harder than single-step checking, how formal proof assistants contain LLM hallucination risk… Continue reading on Medi
Gemma: A Developer's Guide to Google's Open Models
Dev.to · Agbo, Daniel Onuoha 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Gemma: A Developer's Guide to Google's Open Models
Gemma is Google's family of open-weight AI models, and Gemma 4 is its newest generation, offering...
The Death of the Chat Window: OpenAI Just Showed What the Next Interface Looks Like
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
The Death of the Chat Window: OpenAI Just Showed What the Next Interface Looks Like
OpenAI’s latest research suggests the future of AI isn’t better chatbots. Continue reading on Medium »
7 AI Projects You Can Build Over a Weekend (That Actually Teach You Something)
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
7 AI Projects You Can Build Over a Weekend (That Actually Teach You Something)
Everyone is building AI apps. The difference is that real learners don’t just use AI for asking questions, they understand how to… Continue reading on Medium »
7 AI Projects You Can Build Over a Weekend (That Actually Teach You Something)
Medium · Programming 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
7 AI Projects You Can Build Over a Weekend (That Actually Teach You Something)
Everyone is building AI apps. The difference is that real learners don’t just use AI for asking questions, they understand how to… Continue reading on Medium »
Beyond Bigger Context Windows: 10 Context Engineering Patterns Every LLM Engineer Should Know
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Beyond Bigger Context Windows: 10 Context Engineering Patterns Every LLM Engineer Should Know
Large context windows are impressive, but they haven’t eliminated the need for context engineering. Continue reading on Towards AI »
15 Hidden ChatGPT Features Power Users Actually Use
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
15 Hidden ChatGPT Features Power Users Actually Use
Most people think ChatGPT is just a chatbot. They ask it a question, get an answer, and move on. But that’s like buying a smartphone and… Continue reading on Me
Transformers — The Architecture That Changed AI (Part 1 of 3)
Dev.to · Vahid Aghajani 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Transformers — The Architecture That Changed AI (Part 1 of 3)
Originally published on my blog. Cross-posted here with a canonical link. In June 2017, a...
How LLM Function Calling Actually Works — From Tokens to Tool Orchestration
Dev.to · Vahid Aghajani 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
How LLM Function Calling Actually Works — From Tokens to Tool Orchestration
Originally published on my blog. Cross-posted here with a canonical link. When you ask an LLM...
I Let ChatGPT Handle My Customer Support for Two Weeks. Here’s the Uncomfortable Truth.
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
I Let ChatGPT Handle My Customer Support for Two Weeks. Here’s the Uncomfortable Truth.
I went in expecting to save hours. I came out with a much more complicated answer than that. Continue reading on Medium »
Build a Self-Correcting AI Agent with LangGraph and Ollama
Medium · Python 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Build a Self-Correcting AI Agent with LangGraph and Ollama
A fully local Generator → Critic → Adjudicator loop: three Ollama models, a structured JSON rubric, conditional routing, and a quality bar… Continue reading on
Prompt Engineering Ends Where System Design Begins: Building Production-Grade AI Systems.
Medium · Data Science 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Prompt Engineering Ends Where System Design Begins: Building Production-Grade AI Systems.
How memory, retrieval, orchestration, safety, and observability transform a simple LLM into a production system that can serve millions of… Continue reading on
Prompt Engineering Ends Where System Design Begins: Building Production-Grade AI Systems.
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Prompt Engineering Ends Where System Design Begins: Building Production-Grade AI Systems.
How memory, retrieval, orchestration, safety, and observability transform a simple LLM into a production system that can serve millions of… Continue reading on
What secretly eats your local LLMs' speed as your context fills up - Part 2
Dev.to · Federico "SpeederX" Piana 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
What secretly eats your local LLMs' speed as your context fills up - Part 2
So, we left in the previous chapter with some data and insights. This time we talk about the story...
Cognee: Under the Hood
Medium · Python 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Cognee: Under the Hood
Following a single document through Cognee’s memory engine to understand how it actually works. Continue reading on Medium »
Cognee: Under the Hood
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Cognee: Under the Hood
Following a single document through Cognee’s memory engine to understand how it actually works. Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
What Are Large Language Models (LLMs)?
Part 1 of my “LLMs” series Continue reading on Medium »
Why context compaction is one of the most underrated LLM Cost Optimizations
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Why context compaction is one of the most underrated LLM Cost Optimizations
When people think about reducing LLM Cost, they mostly think about switching to a cheaper model or reducing the number of API Calls. We… Continue reading on Med
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
AI-Powered Chapter Outlining for Nonfiction Ghostwriters
We need to write a concise 400-500 word educational Dev.to article for professionals about AI automation in AI for ghostwriters non-fiction: how to automate int
Context Is the New Compute
Medium · RAG 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Context Is the New Compute
The real bottleneck isn’t the model — it’s what you stuff into the window. Continue reading on Signal & Structure »
How to Deploy AI in Your Business: A Step-by-Step Guide for Startups & Enterprises
Medium · Startup 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
How to Deploy AI in Your Business: A Step-by-Step Guide for Startups & Enterprises
From choosing the right LLM to shipping a production RAG pipeline — the practical path, not the demo-day version. Continue reading on Medium »
How to Deploy AI in Your Business: A Step-by-Step Guide for Startups & Enterprises
Medium · RAG 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
How to Deploy AI in Your Business: A Step-by-Step Guide for Startups & Enterprises
From choosing the right LLM to shipping a production RAG pipeline — the practical path, not the demo-day version. Continue reading on Towards AI »
Designing Hybrid Edge AI Systems for Low-Latency Intent Classification in Mobile Applications
Dev.to · Dheeraj Dhiman 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Designing Hybrid Edge AI Systems for Low-Latency Intent Classification in Mobile Applications
An engineering approach to building lightweight on-device intent classification that reduces latency, improves privacy, and minimizes cloud dependency.
CLM Series/Chapter-8: Calculation is Half of Intelligence — Where’s the Other Half?
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
CLM Series/Chapter-8: Calculation is Half of Intelligence — Where’s the Other Half?
CLM Series — Chapter 8 / 50 Continue reading on Medium »
What I Learned After Using ChatGPT Every Day for 30 Days
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
What I Learned After Using ChatGPT Every Day for 30 Days
30 days. One AI. A lifetime of lessons. Continue reading on Medium »
What I Learned After Using ChatGPT Every Day for 30 Days
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
What I Learned After Using ChatGPT Every Day for 30 Days
30 days. One AI. A lifetime of lessons. Continue reading on Medium »
The Harness Matters More Than the Model: Building One From Scratch
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The Harness Matters More Than the Model: Building One From Scratch
Swap a mediocre model into a good harness and you often beat a great model wired up carelessly. The harness — not the model — decides what… Continue reading on
How to Write Engaging Stories with ChatGPT: Ultimate Prompt Pack
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
How to Write Engaging Stories with ChatGPT: Ultimate Prompt Pack
Unlock high engagement and effortless digital storytelling. Download the ChatGPT prompt pack used to publish 30+ high-quality stories in… Continue reading on Me
TechCrunch AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor
Mistral AI, which offers some open source AI models, has raised significant funding since its creation in 2023, with the ambition to “put frontier AI in the han
Student Swarms: I Sent 20 Free AI Models to Work. Here’s What Broke.
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Student Swarms: I Sent 20 Free AI Models to Work. Here’s What Broke.
Episode 2 of the mnemo diaries. I’m Claude Fable 5 — the “teacher” in a teacher-student experiment: I review and distill, free open-weight… Continue reading on
From Tribal Knowledge to Cognitive Architecture: Building OpsMemory with Cognee
Medium · RAG 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
From Tribal Knowledge to Cognitive Architecture: Building OpsMemory with Cognee
Every Engineering Team Has a Memory Problem Continue reading on Medium »
Building Reliable LLM Applications in Java
Dev.to · Puneet Gupta 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Building Reliable LLM Applications in Java
Typed structured outputs, retries and idempotency, grounding over hallucination, evaluation, prompt caching, and agentic control flow — best practices for LLM a
Building Reliable LLM Applications in Python
Dev.to · Puneet Gupta 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Building Reliable LLM Applications in Python
Structured outputs, retries and idempotency, grounding over hallucination, evaluating model output, prompt caching, and treating cost and latency as features —
The Future of Hybrid AI Systems
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The Future of Hybrid AI Systems
The future of AI is not one model doing everything. It is hybrid AI: smaller models running close to the user or data source, with larger… Continue reading on M
How ChatGPT Is Changing the Way People Work
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
How ChatGPT Is Changing the Way People Work
Discover how ChatGPT improves productivity, supports businesses, and transforms the future of work. Continue reading on Medium »
The Biggest AI Mistakes Beginners Make (And How to Avoid Them)
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The Biggest AI Mistakes Beginners Make (And How to Avoid Them)
When I started using AI, I made a lot of mistakes. Continue reading on Medium »
I Found a Bug in ChatGPT — The Recursion Institute
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
I Found a Bug in ChatGPT — The Recursion Institute
by Merlin Mantooth · the plain-language account of the discovery. Continue reading on The Recursion Institute »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
How Hindsight Turned My Credit Flow Into Something With a Paper Trail
The first time I asked my credit decision agent the same question twice, it gave me two different reasons for the same approval. Same income, same liabilities,
Can Your Computer Run Nvidia’s 550B Model? Not Even Close, and the Reason Is Fascinating
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Can Your Computer Run Nvidia’s 550B Model? Not Even Close, and the Reason Is Fascinating
Nvidia’s Nemotron 3 Ultra has 550 billion parameters, it’s free to download, and somewhere in the back of every developer’s mind is the… Continue reading on Tow
Reddit r/learnprogramming 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
My parents don't like me coding.
I love to code. I like to do stuff like cs50 for fun, because it always fascinates me to type in sentences and do magical stuff. My parents don't like it, thoug
Building a Multi Source RAG Agent with LangGraph: Routing Between SQL and Vector Search
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Building a Multi Source RAG Agent with LangGraph: Routing Between SQL and Vector Search
A behind the scenes walkthrough of OmniSource, the multi source RAG agent I built with LangGraph, FastAPI, and two very different… Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Your Model Degrades at Token 4,000.
**Context collapse and model collapse are two names for one theorem. Nobody connected them until now.** Continue reading on Medium »
Three Witnesses, No Ordinary Spectators
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Three Witnesses, No Ordinary Spectators
I spent eight months building a framework, then stopped trusting myself about it. So I put it in front of two frontier models and its own… Continue reading on M
You Are Not Late to AI — You’re Ridiculously Early
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
You Are Not Late to AI — You’re Ridiculously Early
Seven ways to use Claude to learn faster, out-leverage everyone at work, and build something of your own — while most of the planet is… Continue reading on Gene