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Large Language Models
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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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Dev.to · Claire Goldbeg
🧠 Large Language Models
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1h ago
Sematic Coherance
Semantic coherence is not a quality metric or an alignment outcome. It is the structural condition...

Dev.to · Darshit Radadiya
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9h ago
The Best Vector Database in 2026: Qdrant vs Pinecone vs Weaviate vs Milvus vs pgvector
I've run production RAG systems on four of these. Here's the comparison I wish someone had written...

Dev.to · 龚旭东
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10h ago
Building Instant Translation Assistance for Book Translations with Python and LLMs
How we integrated real-time phrase translation feedback into our AI-powered book translation...

Dev.to · chenxiao5580-cmd
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12h ago
Use GPT, Claude, and Gemini with the OpenAI SDK — one base_url, any language
If you're juggling separate SDKs and API keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, here's a simpler...

Dev.to · Solon Framework
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13h ago
Solon 4.0 ChatModel: A Practical Guide to Building LLM-Powered Applications
Learn how to integrate LLMs into Java applications using Solon 4.0's ChatModel API. Covers sync/streaming calls, conversation memory with ChatSession, and pract

Dev.to · darkpenguin
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13h ago
The age of local LLMs is here
Half a year ago, I wanted to see for myself what can we currently have with local LLMs. I went down...

Dev.to · Tabor Bachelor
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14h ago
The Tool We Built to Measure AI Visibility Couldn't Find Itself
Two weeks before we launched Relevyn, I opened ChatGPT and asked it a question I already thought I...

Dev.to · JULIO SAMUEL CORTEZ MAMANI
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14h ago
Vanna AI (El estándar de la industria para Text-to-SQL)
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Idea central: Vanna es...
Simon Willison's Blog
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15h ago
Open Source AI Gap Map
Open Source AI Gap Map Current AI is "a global partnership building a public option for AI", founded as a non-profit at the AI Action Summit in Paris in Februar

Dev.to · HUANGCHIHHUNG
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15h ago
Your LLM isn't watching the video. It's reading subtitles.
Paste a YouTube link into ChatGPT and ask "what's this video about?" — you'll get an answer. But...

Dev.to · B Nyalang
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16h ago
NE-Agent: Building an AI agent that actually speaks Khasi, Garo, Mizo
So this has been eating my nights for months and it's finally out. Northeast India has 220+...

Dev.to · overthelex
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16h ago
Opus + RAG vs Fine-tuned LLM + RAG: Two Approaches to Legal AI — LEX vs Harvey
Harvey spent $100M+ and 10B tokens fine-tuning a case law model with OpenAI. We connected Opus to 100M+ court decisions from EDRSR via RAG. Both paths work — bu

Dev.to · soy
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16h ago
SOTA LLM Local Deployment, OpenAI Fine-tuning Platform, and Google A2UI Generative UI Standard
SOTA LLM Local Deployment, OpenAI Fine-tuning Platform, and Google A2UI Generative UI...

Dev.to · Maya Andersson
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21h ago
We fixed the worst prompt variant. It got better. That doesn't mean the fix worked.
A pattern I've seen on more than one team: weekly eval run finishes, someone sorts the leaderboard,...

Dev.to · Cửu thiên vũ đế review
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21h ago
Stop pasting your API keys into ChatGPT: a safer way to feed a codebase to an LLM
Two quiet failure modes when you dump code into an LLM — leaked secrets and blown context windows — and a zero-dependency CLI that handles both.
Simon Willison's Blog
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23h ago
June 2026 newsletter
The June edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here . This month: Cl

Dev.to · Mattias chaw
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1d 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...

Dev.to · Marco Reyes
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1d 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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1d 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...

Dev.to · plasma
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1d 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 · noxlie
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1d 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...

Dev.to · Edward Li
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1d 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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1d 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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1d 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...

Dev.to · Muhammad Shahrukh
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1d 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...

Dev.to · Anthony Max
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1d 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...

Dev.to · Rahish saifi
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1d ago
The Ultimate Collection of AI Interview Questions for 2026
The demand for AI Engineers, LLM Developers, Prompt Engineers, and AI Agent Developers has grown...

Dev.to · Ken-Mutisya
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1d ago
The Hugging Face Hub Is a Free JSON API: Rank Trending AI Models Without a Key
Everyone reads the Hugging Face trending page in a browser. Almost nobody knows the whole Hub sits...

Dev.to · Anna lilith
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1d ago
I Built an AI That Writes and Sells Python Scripts 24/7
What happens when you give an AI the ability to write code, test it, and sell it? You get a fully...

Dev.to · bytessyster
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1d ago
How a 1787 Formula Picks the Next Word in ChatGPT
Mathematics has an annoying habit: it keeps handing you the same idea over and over under different...

Dev.to · Y Hành Nhan
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2d ago
Top AI Papers on Hugging Face - 2026-07-02
10 paper AI nổi bật nhất trên Hugging Face hôm nay: xu hướng mới từ agent memory, 3D...

Dev.to · Gabriel Mahia
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2d ago
How I'm Building MCP Servers for a Language Claude Doesn't Know Well
How I'm Building MCP Servers for a Language Claude Doesn't Know Well Swahili has roughly...

Dev.to · Jaackop
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2d ago
🤖 How We Use LLMs to Deliver Personalized Language Feedback at Mocko.ai
Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed what's possible in education. Instead of simply...

Dev.to · Jaackop
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2d ago
AI-Powered Language Learning Platform: Lessons We Learned
Building an AI-Powered Language Learning Platform: Lessons We Learned When we started...

Dev.to · Etrit Neziri
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2d ago
FastAPI + LLM: Build a Production-Ready AI API in 30 Minutes
FastAPI + LLM: Build a Production-Ready AI API in 30 Minutes Need to serve an LLM through...

Dev.to · Tatiana Radchenko 🇩🇰
🧠 Large Language Models
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2d ago
Your LLM didn't get worse. It changed — and nobody told you.
It's 2am. Your JSON parse errors are up 12%. Latency: normal. Uptime: 100%. Your prompt didn't...

Dev.to · gentleforge
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2d ago
I Cut My LLM Bill 40x: A Backend Engineer's Migration Notes
Honestly, i Cut My LLM Bill 40x: A Backend Engineer's Migration Notes Last month I opened my OpenAI...

Dev.to · Srijan Paudel
🧠 Large Language Models
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2d ago
The LLM Gateway & Router Index (2026)
A gateway sits between your app and the model providers: one API, key management, caching, failover,...

Dev.to · Dimple
🧠 Large Language Models
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2d ago
MCP didn't give AI memory. It gave AI access to memory.
MCP is basically turning AI from ** 🧠 "Who are you again?" New chat. New conversation. Everything...

Dev.to · TokenPAPA
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2d ago
LLM API Latency & Speed Comparison 2026 — Which Provider Is Fastest?
Real-world LLM API latency comparison: DeepSeek vs GPT-5 vs Claude vs Gemini. Time-to-first-token, tokens per second, and geographic latency benchmark

Dev.to · Na'aman Hirschfeld (Goldziher)
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2d ago
When an LLM response fails validation, feed the error back into the retry
If you ask an LLM for structured output and validate it against a schema, you already know the...

Dev.to · correctover
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2d ago
Honesty Theater: Why Disclosure Reliability in LLM Guardrails
Honesty Theater: Why Disclosure ≠ Reliability in LLM Guardrails When a guardrail says it...

Dev.to · Breach Protocol
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2d ago
What if a word were a rotation? A more mathematical way to build AI
A fresh, abstract idea: treat what a model attends to not as plain lists of numbers but as geometric moves like rotations — so useful symmetries come 'for free.

Dev.to · Flavio Venturini
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2d ago
CELN: A CPU-only deterministic reasoning engine using Vector Symbolic Architectures
I wanted to share a project I've been working on: CELN (C. Elegans Learning Network). It's a logical...

Dev.to · alex getman
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2d ago
Claude Desktop is now on Linux
Claude Desktop is now on Linux Anthropic has released Claude Desktop for Linux in beta. Ubuntu and...

Dev.to · Devanshu Biswas
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2d ago
How to Make an LLM 2-3x Faster Without Changing a Single Word It Says
Large language models are slow for one stubborn reason: they write one token at a time. To produce a...

Dev.to · Shivam Yadav
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2d ago
How ChatGPT Understands Your Questions
From Words to Tokens: Understanding How Large Language Models Think Every day, millions of...

Dev.to · Sid Probstein
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2d ago
Making RAG admit when it's guessing: source-grounded hallucination checks
The failure mode that scares me most in RAG isn't a wrong answer. It's a confident wrong answer with...
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