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Large Language Models
Deep dives into GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama and the transformers powering modern AI
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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 · Devanshu Biswas
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
Reranking: Retrieve Fast, Then Reorder Precisely (Better RAG)
Your RAG retriever pulls 50 candidate docs in milliseconds — but the best one is often sitting at...

Dev.to · TrueFoundry
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
LLM Gateway vs MCP Gateway: Understanding the New AI Infrastructure Stack
As AI applications evolve from simple chatbots into autonomous agents, a new infrastructure layer is...

Dev.to · Manoj Krishna Mohan
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
I built a Rust entropy monitor to route LLM inference — here's what the benchmark showed
Frontier LLM inference is expensive. I wanted to see how far a 4B local model could go before needing...

Dev.to · Prateek Pareek
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
How Claude AI Actually Works: The Technical Story Behind the Scenes
Wondering how Claude AI works? Simply put, Claude is a large language model built by Anthropic that...

Dev.to · Papers Mache
🧠 Large Language Models
📄 Paper
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Multilingual code gap exposed by Multi‑LCB
LLMs achieve high scores on Python coding tasks, yet their proficiency drops for the eleven other...

Dev.to · MORINAGA
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
How I built pairwise AI model compare pages with Claude Haiku and a budget cap
The O(n²) combinatorics problem with AI directory compare pages, how I budget-capped Claude Haiku calls, and dumped results to static JSON for Astro.

Dev.to · Orvi Das
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
From Code to Governance: The Complete Guide to LLM Token Optimization
Your token costs are growing faster than your usage. You've already optimized model selection on...
Dev.to · byeongsoo kang
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
The Open-Model Cost Chart Everyone's Sharing Is API Prices. Here's What Self-Hosting Actually Gets You (Measured)
The intelligence-vs-cost chart shows open models winning the value quadrant. True, but the x-axis is API price. The cheap open winners (GLM-5.2 ~744B) don't fit

Dev.to · chenxiao5580-cmd
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Use a flat-priced, auto-routing LLM API in Aider or Cline — one npx command
A ~120-line zero-dependency local proxy that makes a flat-priced, auto-routing LLM API work as a drop-in OpenAI endpoint in Aider, Cline, Continue, or any OpenA

Dev.to · Paul Twist
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
We're Moving LiteLLM to Rust. Here's What the Benchmarks Look Like.
LiteLLM is migrating to Rust: 15x throughput, 11x less memory, sub-1ms overhead. Here are the benchmark numbers and the migration plan.

Dev.to · Max Quimby
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
GLM-5.2 Is Cheap Because It's Subsidized, Not Efficient
GLM-5.2 burns 2x the tokens of its predecessor. The real cost edge is provider pricing — and it's repriceable overnight.

Dev.to · Lavelle Hatcher Jr
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
The 5 Things Your LLM Benchmark Misses That Actually Decide the Winner
A practical guide to choosing the right LLM for your use case, before a generic ranking talks you...

Dev.to · linz001
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Turn Your Best AI Conversations Into a Blog — and Give Your Model a Memory That Lasts
blogs.city blogifies and wiki-fies the dialogue you already have with large models — Hermes, OpenClaw, and any AI editor.

Dev.to · Adeola Okunola
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
How to Prove Your AI Did What It Said: A Developer's Guide to Verifiable AI Outputs
Attach a cryptographically signed receipt to every LLM call so you, your auditors, and your customers can verify what your AI produced, when, and from what inpu

Dev.to · Matt
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
The LLM is an ALU
Why Your AI Agent Needs a guy who wrote games on a ZX Spectrum A few weeks ago I was...

Dev.to · Marcus Kim
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Why Beginners Should Ask AI More Questions Before Building An App
The beginner mistake with AI is not asking a bad first question. That part is normal. The real...

Dev.to · Arsen Apostolov
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
How Much Does It Actually Cost to Run a Local LLM? (€ per Million Tokens, Measured)
"It runs on my own GPU, so it's basically free." I believed that until I put a meter on it. So I ran...

Dev.to · Roan de Jager
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
I built a local AI memory gate on a CPU, and my 7B model scored worse than my 1.5B model because it was too smart
Hi everyone, I've been hacking on a personal, local project called Hillock. Honestly, it's very much...

Dev.to · Mohammad Heydari
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Designing a Synthetic Data Pipeline for Persian LLM Fine Tuning: From Topic Graphs to QLoRA Evaluation
Introduction: Why this project matters? Training instruction following LLMs is no longer just about...

Dev.to · Zhongkai Fu
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
TensorSharp: .NET Native Open Source Local LLM Inference Engine
TensorSharp I would like to share my latest open source .net native local LLM inference engine and...

Dev.to · Jimmy Guerrero
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
June 25 - AI, ML, and Computer Vision Meetup
Join us on June 25 at 9 AM Pacific for the monthly AI, ML, and Computer Vision Meetup! Register...

Dev.to · Zoheb Malik
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
We built a new AI Topology to bypass the Transformer bottleneck. Here are our first benchmark results.
If you’ve been following the AI space, you know we are hitting a physical compute ceiling. Standard...

Dev.to · Y Hành Nhan
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Top AI Papers on Hugging Face - 2026-06-22
10 paper AI nổi bật nhất trên Hugging Face hôm nay: từ inpainting siêu nhẹ đến benchmark đa...

Dev.to · Marwan Hamdy
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Dumping chat history into a vector database is the worst way to give an AI memory. Here is how I built a "Structured Memory" layer that separates conversation from durable human facts.
I Turned a Dead Discord Bot Into an AI Therapist That Actually Remembers You ...

Dev.to · Marwan Hamdy
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
I wanted to build an AI companion, so my first step was limiting what the AI is actually allowed to think. Here is how I used "Semantic Intake" to force the LLM to understand context before it speaks:
I Turned a Dead Discord Bot Into an AI Therapist That Actually Remembers You ...

Dev.to · Shoaib Iqbal
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
RAG Systems with Claude: From Documentation to Production
Meta: Build production-grade RAG systems using Claude and vector search. Step-by-step guide to...

Dev.to · Andrew Kew
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
'"An LLM and a harness": Nvidia''s simple thesis on what agents actually are'
Nvidia's Nader Khalil — Director of Developer Technologies and co-founder of Brev.dev, acquired by...

Dev.to · chnby
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
How I Cut My LLM API Bill by 80% With a Simple Router
No fancy infrastructure. Just a 50-line Python function that picks the right model for the right...

Dev.to · Wade Allen
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Catch LLM hallucinations with multi-model consensus
A single model gives you a single point of failure: when it's confidently wrong, you get no signal...

Dev.to · Karthi Raman
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Three Rounds of Training Turn a Word-Predictor Into a Chatbot. None of Them Are Magic.
Last time I argued that the Transformer, the architecture under basically every model you've heard...

Dev.to · Ashley B
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
The AI Prompts I Wish I Had Right After Graduation
The AI Prompts I Wish I Had Right After Graduation Graduation advice is weird. Half the...

Dev.to · Matt Cretzman
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Sharing Claude Context Across a Team Is the New Org Chart
A 12-person team without a shared Claude context layer burns $93K-$175K a year re-prompting from scratch. Here is the stack that compounds instead.

Dev.to · NexGenData
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Literature Review Automation: Search and Analyze Hundreds of Academic Papers in Minutes
You're a graduate student starting research on machine learning interpretability. Your advisor says:...

Dev.to · Devanshu Biswas
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Embeddings: Turning Meaning Into Numbers
Yesterday we turned text into tokens. Today: how those tokens become meaning a computer can work with...

Dev.to · Devanshu Biswas
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Transformers From Scratch: Assembling the Block Behind GPT
Yesterday: attention — each token deciding how much to look at every other token. Today we assemble...

Dev.to · zeromathai
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Why Multi-Head Attention Needs Position, Residuals, and Normalization
Self-Attention is powerful. But by itself, it has three problems. It needs multiple views, it needs...

Dev.to · John Medina
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
How to Stop One Customer From Blowing Up Your Entire LLM Budget
So your SaaS is finally getting some traction. Congrats. Then you check your OpenAI bill and realize...

Dev.to · Lois-Kleinner
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
You don't need the internet to run research - document 05 ? local ai inference performance. We made sure of it.
**research - Document 05 ? Local AI Inference Performance** --- ## The Problem This document presents a comprehensive benchmark analysis of local AI inference p

Dev.to · Lois-Kleinner
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
The cloud was never necessary for Local-First AI Inference. Here's why.
**Local-First AI Inference: Architectural Patterns for Fully Offline LLM Deployment** --- ## The Problem The dependence of large language model (LLM) inference

Dev.to · claire nguyen
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Semantic caching our flaky-test summariser: 58% fewer LLM calls
TL;DR: Our internal flaky-test summariser at Buildkite was firing ~40k LLM calls a day, and most were...

Dev.to · Martin Havel
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
I gave myself an AI advisory board — three models argue, I decide
How I run a panel of three LLMs in different roles to prepare a decision — and why the decision itself always stays human.
Dev.to · Nico Acosta
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
How to Export Your Lovable Project and Accelerate Development
Have you reached the limits of Lovable? This guide will walk you through exporting your project to GitHub in under 15 minutes to continue building with AI agent

Dev.to · Mattias chaw
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Cutting Your LLM API Costs by 80% With Smart Model Routing
Cutting Your LLM API Costs by 80% With Smart Model Routing Most developers default to...

Dev.to · Shixin Zhang
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
The Two Paradigms of Scientific Computing Agents: Abstraction, Openness, and "The Bitter Lesson"
In recent years, the rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) has turned "AI + Scientific...

Dev.to · Avinash Zala
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
I Built RAG From Scratch in Python to Understand It. Here's What I Learned.
Every RAG tutorial I read used LangChain or LlamaIndex and hid the interesting parts. So I built a 500-line RAG pipeline with no frameworks — just pypdf, Chroma

Dev.to · Lois-Kleinner
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
The cloud was never necessary for Ed25519 State Proofs for Offline Audit Verification. Here's why.
**Ed25519 State Proofs for Offline Audit Verification: Protocols and Benchmarking** --- ## The Problem State proofs provide cryptographic evidence of a ledger's

Dev.to · Avinash Zala
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Build a Local RAG Chatbot in 30 Minutes with .NET 8, Ollama, and React
I built a PDF question-answering chatbot in .NET 8 + React that runs entirely on my laptop — no API keys, no cloud, no monthly bill. The whole thing is 9 source

Dev.to · Lois-Kleinner
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
Every browser engine company builds on rented land. Vision-Language Ad Blocking doesn't.
**Vision-Language Ad Blocking: DOM-Independent Content Filtering Using Multimodal LLMs** --- ## The Problem The advent of Manifest V3 in Chromium-based browsers
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