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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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Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1h ago
Local LLM vs Claude: Benchmarking qwen3-coder:30b as a Production Agent Backend
TL;DR Replayed 27 real historical tasks from Jarvis (my LangGraph agent, ~90 tools) through qwen3-coder:30b on an RTX 3090, scored against Claude's actual produ
Designing a Production-Grade RAG System for PDF Question Answering
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2h ago
Designing a Production-Grade RAG System for PDF Question Answering
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a standard approach for building LLM applications grounded in private or domain-specific… Continue reading on Me
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3h ago
ChatGPT vs. Gemini 2.5: Which Brain Fits Your 2026 Stack?
For the longest time, I hardcoded a single LLM model in my production stack. After months of usage, I realized this was a terrible financial decision. In 2026,
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3h ago
I Scored 10,000 Job Listings a Day With GPT-4. Here's What Broke
The first time my scoring pipeline ran against a full day's batch, it took 47 minutes and cost $86. The second run took three hours because half the requests hi
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3h ago
Knowledge Distillation: Fit a Big Model's Smarts Into a Small One
🎓 Distill a model yourself (real softmax + real gradient descent): https://dev48v.infy.uk/ai/days/day23-distillation.html The problem: big models are expensive
DSpark Speculative Decoding Looks Simple, Until You Hit Suffix Decay
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6h ago
DSpark Speculative Decoding Looks Simple, Until You Hit Suffix Decay
Every speculative decoding system I’ve looked at makes the same trade. You either get a drafter that’s accurate but slow, or fast but… Continue reading on Mediu
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 7h ago
Building RAG-Powered AI Agents with AgentCore: What the Hands-On Tutorials Don't Tell You
Your vector database is returning results. Your retrieval pipeline is clean. But when you connect AgentCore to your production knowledge base, the answers drift
From Tools to Workers: The Shift in Artificial Intelligence
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 8h ago
From Tools to Workers: The Shift in Artificial Intelligence
The way we think about AI is changing — not incrementally, but fundamentally. We’re no longer building smarter hammers. We’re building… Continue reading on Medi
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 9h ago
IA local vs ChatGPT para empresas: qué usar y cuándo
IA local vs ChatGPT para empresas: qué usar y cuándo Como experto en IA local y consultor de tecnología, he visto cómo las empresas se enfrentan a la decisión d
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 11h ago
5 prompts de IA que todo profesor debería usar en 2026
Ia educacion docentes prompts chatgpt — artículo de Itelnet Consulting 5 Prompts de IA que Todo Profesor Debería Usar en 2026 La integración de la inteligencia
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 13h ago
Building Business Intelligence Tools with LLM
Business intelligence is shifting from static dashboards to interactive, language-driven interfaces. Instead of learning SQL or navigating drag-and-drop builder
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 13h ago
Leveraging LLM for Business Intelligence
We are building a conversational BI agent that turns plain English questions into SQL, runs them against a local SQLite database, and summarizes the results for
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 13h ago
Changes to LLM pricing: SambaNova
Model price changes detected for SambaNova. Details below.
Claude Sonnet 5 Explained: Features, Use Cases, and Why It Matters in 2026
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 14h ago
Claude Sonnet 5 Explained: Features, Use Cases, and Why It Matters in 2026
A beginner-friendly guide to understanding Claude Sonnet 5, its real-world applications, and how it is changing the way people work with… Continue reading on Me
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 14h ago
Breaking Free From AI Vendor Lock-In: A Developer's Notes
Breaking Free From AI Vendor Lock-In: A Developer's Notes I've been writing code for about twelve years now, and if there's one thing that grinds my gears more
Beyond Chatbots:
Medium · Programming 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 16h ago
Beyond Chatbots:
How LLMs Are Quietly Transforming Everyday Business Workflows Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 16h ago
FABLE 5 Came Back. Now It Answers to Two Masters.
Eighteen days ago I wrote about the night the smartest AI on Earth went dark in the middle of my sentence. It was 2:51 in the morning in India, 5:21 PM in New Y
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 16h ago
Unlocking ChatGPT's Full Potential: Prompt Engineering for Freelancers
Unlocking ChatGPT's Full Potential: Prompt Engineering for Freelancers As a freelancer, staying ahead of the curve is crucial for success. One technology that h
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 16h ago
Huawei Just Open-Sourced openPangu 2.0 Flash — 92B MoE That Runs on Consumer Hardware
Huawei made a bold move on June 30, 2026, officially open-sourcing openPangu-2.0-Flash — a 92-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with only 6 billion act
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 16h ago
BizNode's semantic memory (Qdrant) makes your bot smarter over time — it remembers past conversations and answers...
The 1BZ Ecosystem CopyGuard (protect) → IPVault (monetize) → SmartPDF (deliver) → DZIT (settle on Polygon) → BizNode (automate) AI business operator node — http
I built Enlive, a free website that makes LLM prompting easier in 40 languages
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 17h ago
I built Enlive, a free website that makes LLM prompting easier in 40 languages
Although model capabilities have advanced significantly, one of the greatest challenges users still encounter is the input barrier… Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 18h ago
Fable was swapped
Fable was swapped Claude Fable 5 was tested again in BridgeBench after its return. The results dropped sharply. Debugging: 86.2 → 25.9 Refactoring: 73.6 → 38.4
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 18h ago
Stop Your LLM From Getting Owned
Hello, I'm Maneshwar. I'm building git-lrc, a Micro AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. It is free and source-available on Github. Star git-lrc to help
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 18h ago
The English Parsing Problem That Quietly Led to Modern LLM Transformers
Hello, I'm Shrijith Venkatramana. I'm building git-lrc, an AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. Star Us to help devs discover the project. Do give it a t
The Best AI Prompt Isn’t the Longest One — It’s the Clearest
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 19h ago
The Best AI Prompt Isn’t the Longest One — It’s the Clearest
I spent months writing massive prompts for AI. Then one simple change gave me better answers in less time. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 20h ago
The Anatomy of a Production-Grade LLM Gateway
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Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 20h ago
GPT-5.6 Went to the Government Before It Goes to You
TL;DR OpenAI previewed GPT-5.6 on June 26, 2026 as a three-tier family , Sol (flagship), Terra (mid), Luna (budget) , named for Sun, Earth, Moon, with the numbe
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 20h ago
15 AI models hit end-of-life in the next 90 days — the full table
If you build on hosted LLM APIs, model retirements are the quiet breakage: a model ID keeps working right up until the day it returns a 404, and the deprecation
6 Ways You’re Prompting Claude Fable 5 Wrong
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 21h ago
6 Ways You’re Prompting Claude Fable 5 Wrong
You upgraded to the smartest model and your best prompts stopped landing. Six habits that fix it. Continue reading on Data Science Collective »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 22h ago
Beyond Context
The models are getting better. As you may have seen on multiple graphs presented here at the World's Fair, that 50% success-rate task duration horizon is growin
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 22h ago
Stop Treating LLM Memory as a Database: The Shift Toward Memory as a Skill
Stop Treating LLM Memory as a Database: The Shift Toward Memory as a Skill For the last two years, the industry has been obsessed with RAG. We've spent countles
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 22h ago
Generative AI Business for Agentic AI Firms
💡 Key Highlights Agentic AI Firms : Embracing Generative AI Business for Enhanced Decision-Making and Scalability. Generative AI Business : Leveraging Large La
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Qwen 3.6 27B: How a 27B Dense Model Beats a 397B Giant — The Engineer's Complete Local AI Deployment Guide
Published: June 30, 2026 · 15 min read · Focus keyword: Qwen 3.6 27B local deployment <img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=sc
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
I Tested Four Chinese LLMs So You Don't Have To — Here's What I Found
I Tested Four Chinese LLMs So You Don't Have To — Here's What I Found Look, I'll be honest with you — I almost didn't write this piece. The Western AI giants ha
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I stuffed my whole repo into a million-token context window The model went blind in the middle, and…
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
I stuffed my whole repo into a million-token context window The model went blind in the middle, and…
Last week I did the thing the marketing told me I could finally do. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Gating Crisis - Choosing the right expert
Day 2: The Gating Crisis — Can You Act as a Sparse MoE Router Without Dropping Tokens? 🧠⚡ Mixture of Experts (MoE) models (like Mixtral 8x7B, DeepSeek-V3, and
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
The reliability stack for LLM agents: tools and methods
A request can fail at three moments: before you send it, while it runs, or after it returns. Different tools and habits cover different moments. This is a direc
Your AI Is Forgetting Things On Purpose — And That’s Kind of Genius
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Your AI Is Forgetting Things On Purpose — And That’s Kind of Genius
The hidden math trick that could make ChatGPT-style AI 10x cheaper to run, explained like you’re hearing about it over coffee Continue reading on Stackademic »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
I Did the Math on Claude Sonnet 5. The 60% Opus Discount Is Real, But Temporary.
Anthropic shipped Claude Sonnet 5, and the takes I saw were predictable: "It replaces Opus." "It is just another Sonnet refresh." "The benchmark chart means you
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
How to Stop ChatGPT and Claude From Forgetting Context in Long Conversations
ChatGPT and Claude forget context in long conversations because every model has a fixed context window — once the thread outgrows it, the oldest turns get dropp
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
How I Cut Our LLM Bill by 40x — A CTO's Migration Playbook
How I Cut Our LLM Bill by 40x — A CTO's Migration Playbook Three months ago I opened our monthly infrastructure invoice and nearly choked on my coffee. We were
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Watched enterprise teams ship openai to production and hit the same wall
The room had no windows and the demo was going perfectly. Every question the team threw at the model, it answered. A CTO nodded. The pilot was approved. Everyon
Cost Per Token Explained: GPT vs Claude vs Gemini (2026)
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Cost Per Token Explained: GPT vs Claude vs Gemini (2026)
Token pricing is the part of AI API documentation that confuses more people than any other. The numbers are small ($0.15 per million… Continue reading on Medium
50 AI Prompts That Would Have Saved Me Hundreds of Hours in College
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
50 AI Prompts That Would Have Saved Me Hundreds of Hours in College
I wish someone had handed me this list in my first year. Here it is for yours. Continue reading on Medium »
Everyone Is Learning Prompt Engineering. I Think the Next Skill Is Loop Engineering.
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Everyone Is Learning Prompt Engineering. I Think the Next Skill Is Loop Engineering.
We’ve spent the past two years optimizing prompts, fine-tuning models, building RAG pipelines, and designing AI agents. The next… Continue reading on Medium »
Why Does AI Sometimes Forget What You Said Earlier?
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Why Does AI Sometimes Forget What You Said Earlier?
The idea of token limits explained — and what you can actually do about it. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
When an AI Starts Talking to Itself: The Birth of Self-Awareness
When an AI Starts Talking to Itself: The Birth of Self-Awareness The Moment Everything Changed I built an AI assistant. It answered questions, managed my calend