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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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Moving Beyond Vector Search: Why Your Next AI Agent Needs GraphRAG
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Moving Beyond Vector Search: Why Your Next AI Agent Needs GraphRAG
In the early days of 2024, we thought Vector Search was the final answer to AI hallucinations. We converted our PDFs into embeddings… Continue reading on Medium
Why the Best Generative AI Projects Start With the Most Powerful Model — and End Without It
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Why the Best Generative AI Projects Start With the Most Powerful Model — and End Without It
The System Nobody Planned to Build Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
I read all 232 pages of the Opus 4.7 system card
A system card is the document Anthropic publishes with every major Claude release, detailing capabilities and safety evaluations. The Claude Opus 4.7 edition, p
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
How to run Qwen3.6-35B-A3B locally — the coding MoE that beats models 10x its active size
Qwen just released Qwen3.6-35B-A3B — the first model in their 3.6 series. It's a Mixture-of-Experts model with 35 billion total parameters but only 3 billion ac
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Freelancers: Unlocking the Power of AI for Business Growth
ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Freelancers: Unlocking the Power of AI for Business Growth As a freelancer, staying ahead of the curve is crucial for success. On
What are Embeddings?
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
What are Embeddings?
The invisible math that makes AI actually understand what you mean Continue reading on Medium »
I Don’t Use AI All the Time. That’s Exactly Why It Helps Me Think Better
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
I Don’t Use AI All the Time. That’s Exactly Why It Helps Me Think Better
Most people use AI to think less. I use it to think better. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Large Language Letters 04/16/2026
Automated draft from LLL Anthropic's Claude Models Surpass Human Researchers in AI Alignment Automated Alignment Research: A Fourfold Improvement, and Important
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
LLM-as-Judge: Automated Quality Gate for LLM Outputs in Production
Your HTTP 200 OK is lying to you. Here’s how to actually know if your model is hallucinating. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
"The AI Skills Shortage: What Prompt Engineering Actually Pays in 2026"
Written by Baldur in the Valhalla Arena The AI Skills Shortage: What Prompt Engineering Actually Pays in 2026 The gold rush narrative around prompt engineering
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Artificial Intelligence vs Data Science vs Computer Science: Which B.Tech is Best?
Confused between AI, Data Science, and Computer Science? Learn the key differences, career scope, salary potential, and choose the best… Continue reading on Med
The Chatbot You Just Talked to Wasn’t Following a Script-Here’s What It Was Actually Doing
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
The Chatbot You Just Talked to Wasn’t Following a Script-Here’s What It Was Actually Doing
The last time you typed a question into a customer support chat, you probably assumed one of two things. Continue reading on Medium »
Beyond the Click: The Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Blueprint for 2026
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Beyond the Click: The Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Blueprint for 2026
The conventional search economy is undergoing a crucial shift that will significantly alter how users engage with information on the… Continue reading on Medium
Bir İş Analistinin GözündenYapay Zeka Terimleri:
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Bir İş Analistinin GözündenYapay Zeka Terimleri:
Toplantı odalarında duyduğunuz LLM, RAG, Ajan, MCP gibi terimlerin gerçekte ne anlama geldiğini, bankacılık ve finans sektöründen somut… Continue reading on Med
Bir İş Analistinin GözündenYapay Zeka Terimleri:
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Bir İş Analistinin GözündenYapay Zeka Terimleri:
Toplantı odalarında duyduğunuz LLM, RAG, Ajan, MCP gibi terimlerin gerçekte ne anlama geldiğini, bankacılık ve finans sektöründen somut… Continue reading on Med
Claude vs ChatGPT for Business: What Companies Need to Know Before Choosing an AI Tool
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Claude vs ChatGPT for Business: What Companies Need to Know Before Choosing an AI Tool
Artificial intelligence is no longer something businesses are simply experimenting with. It has become part of everyday operations, from… Continue reading on Me
Why Bigger Models Still Don’t Think (and What Comes Next)
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Why Bigger Models Still Don’t Think (and What Comes Next)
Hyperdimensional Computing Part 2 Continue reading on Medium »
Por qué los modelos de lenguaje más sofisticados aún no piensan (y qué viene después)
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Por qué los modelos de lenguaje más sofisticados aún no piensan (y qué viene después)
Hyperdimensional Computing Parte 2 Continue reading on Medium »
70 Years of AI — The Story Nobody Tells You
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
70 Years of AI — The Story Nobody Tells You
Everyone thinks AI started in 2022. Continue reading on Medium »
THIS IS WILD.
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
THIS IS WILD.
The language learning industry is built on your failure. These 5 Claude prompts are built on your success. Here is the complete system… Continue reading on AI T
The Equation That Modelled Dying Populations in 1838 Is Now Firing Inside ChatGPT
Medium · Data Science 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
The Equation That Modelled Dying Populations in 1838 Is Now Firing Inside ChatGPT
When Pierre François Verhulst solved a differential equation about human extinction, he had no idea he was writing the activation function… Continue reading on
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Numerical Instability and Chaos: Quantifying the Unpredictability of Large Language Models
arXiv:2604.13206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into agentic workflows, their unpredictability stemm
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
ReSS: Learning Reasoning Models for Tabular Data Prediction via Symbolic Scaffold
arXiv:2604.13392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tabular data remains prevalent in high-stakes domains such as healthcare and finance, where predictive models ar
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Quantifying and Understanding Uncertainty in Large Reasoning Models
arXiv:2604.13395v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have recently demonstrated significant improvements in complex reasoning. While qu
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
The cognitive companion: a lightweight parallel monitoring architecture for detecting and recovering from reasoning degradation in LLM agents
arXiv:2604.13759v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents on multi-step tasks suffer reasoning degradation, looping, drift, stuck states
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
GeoAgentBench: A Dynamic Execution Benchmark for Tool-Augmented Agents in Spatial Analysis
arXiv:2604.13888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) marks a paradigm shift
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Reward Design for Physical Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
arXiv:2604.13993v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical reasoning over visual inputs demands tight integration of visual perception, domain knowledge, and mult
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
TREX: Automating LLM Fine-tuning via Agent-Driven Tree-based Exploration
arXiv:2604.14116v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) have empowered AI research agents to perform isolated scientific tasks, autom
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
When Reasoning Models Hurt Behavioral Simulation: A Solver-Sampler Mismatch in Multi-Agent LLM Negotiation
arXiv:2604.11840v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used as agents in social, economic, and policy simulations. A common as
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
TableNet A Large-Scale Table Dataset with LLM-Powered Autonomous
arXiv:2604.13041v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Table Structure Recognition (TSR) requires the logical reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs) to ha
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Big Tech firms are accelerating AI investments and integration, while regulators and companies focus on safety and responsible adoption.
The AI landscape is experiencing unprecedented growth and transformation. This post delves into the key developments shaping the future of artificial intelligen
The Two Eval Loops Every Production LLM System Needs
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The Two Eval Loops Every Production LLM System Needs
Why monitoring latency, error rates, uptime, tokens, and cost is not enough for LLM systems in production Continue reading on Medium »
The Thing I Didn’t Know About AI Companions Until a Non-English User Told Me
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The Thing I Didn’t Know About AI Companions Until a Non-English User Told Me
I built this app in English. Continue reading on Medium »
Is Claude Mythos a Genuine Breakthrough or the Most Expensive PR Stunt in AI History?
Medium · Startup 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Is Claude Mythos a Genuine Breakthrough or the Most Expensive PR Stunt in AI History?
Anthropic has had a very interesting few weeks. Within seven days in late March, three things happened in sequence: an internal… Continue reading on Medium »
Build Your Own ChatGPT Replica in 45 Minutes: A Step-by-Step Guide
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Build Your Own ChatGPT Replica in 45 Minutes: A Step-by-Step Guide
Welcome to this guide on building your very own custom AI assistant! Continue reading on Medium »
Understanding Core LLM Concepts: A Beginner-Friendly Guide
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Understanding Core LLM Concepts: A Beginner-Friendly Guide
If you’ve recently started exploring AI, especially Large Language Models (LLMs), you’ve probably come across terms like tokens, context… Continue reading on Me
The Papers That Taught Machines to Comprehend
Medium · NLP 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The Papers That Taught Machines to Comprehend
And why the future is essentially, multimodal. Continue reading on Medium »
The Papers That Taught Machines to Comprehend
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The Papers That Taught Machines to Comprehend
And why the future is essentially, multimodal. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Time Relative to Clock Speed & Persistent AI
What Happens If We Build a Persistent AI Mind? Einstein once said something like: two minutes with a pretty girl feels like nothing, but two minutes with your h
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
What I Learned Building an MCP Server for a 130K-Node Knowledge Graph
I built a Model Context Protocol server that lets Claude query a knowledge graph with 130,000+ nodes. Here's what I learned — the parts the tutorials skip. The
The Asymmetric Efficiency Manifesto: Why Vector RAG is a Dead End for Corporate Memory
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The Asymmetric Efficiency Manifesto: Why Vector RAG is a Dead End for Corporate Memory
How we shattered the SOTA memory benchmarks by ditching stochastic vectors for a deterministic graph. Continue reading on Medium »
Part 1: The Custodial Shift — The Knowledge Custodian
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Part 1: The Custodial Shift — The Knowledge Custodian
AI is not replacing experts, but it is transforming what it means to be one. Are we ready for this? Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
What happens when AI-generated outputs become the training data for future AI systems?
This is no longer a theoretical concern. With the explosion of AI-generated content — text, code, images, decisions, and logs — there is… Continue reading on Me
Microsoft’s New Method Cuts Reasoning Model Memory by 3x — Here’s How It Actually Works
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Microsoft’s New Method Cuts Reasoning Model Memory by 3x — Here’s How It Actually Works
MEMENTO: Teaching LLMs to take notes on their own thinking Continue reading on Towards AI »
How AI gets smarter when you push back
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
How AI gets smarter when you push back
Every time you correct an AI output, you’re doing something valuable. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Why Your SaaS Needs llms.txt: A Practical Guide with Real Traffic Data
If you run a SaaS or any product with a public website, there is a small text file you should ship this week. It costs nothing, takes an hour, and — in my case
7 ChatGPT Prompts So Good They Feel Illegal to Know
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
7 ChatGPT Prompts So Good They Feel Illegal to Know
I’ve tested hundreds. These 7 changed how I work forever. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Big Tech firms are accelerating AI investments and integration, while regulators and companies focus on safety and responsible adoption.
The AI landscape is experiencing unprecedented growth and transformation. This post delves into the key developments shaping the future of artificial intelligen