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LLM Foundations

Explain how transformers generate text

Write zero-shot and few-shot prompts

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Call LLM APIs with function/tool use

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Prepare fine-tuning datasets

Multimodal LLMs

Use GPT-4V / Claude Vision for image understanding

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The AI Industry as You Know It Died Today

The Algorithmic Bridge 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

The AI Industry as You Know It Died Today

OpenAI announced GPT-5.6 but a terrible thing has happened

I Tested 5 Open-Source NotebookLM Alternatives — Here's What Actually Works

Dev.to · Vigoss Luke 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

I Tested 5 Open-Source NotebookLM Alternatives — Here's What Actually Works

Real-world comparison of Open Notebook, Notex, KnowNote, NotebookLM-Local, and InsightsLM. Setup time, hardware requirements, and honest limitations.

Beyond Machine Learning: Building a Physics-Informed Pattern Recognition AI for Edge Infrastructure

Dev.to · Omer Giladi 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

Beyond Machine Learning: Building a Physics-Informed Pattern Recognition AI for Edge Infrastructure

In the era of Edge AI and Industrial IoT, the reflex answer to almost every anomaly detection problem...

Why You Should Almost Never Send a PDF, DOCX, or Image to ChatGPT or Claude

Dev.to · Nicolas Dabene 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

Why You Should Almost Never Send a PDF, DOCX, or Image to ChatGPT or Claude

TL;DR Most users try to reduce their AI bill by switching models. GPT or Claude? Pro...

Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

Dev.to · Aman Shekhar 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

I’ve been diving deep into the world of AI lately, and let me tell you, it’s been a rollercoaster...

FutureX · Physical AI Daily — Issue 41 (06/28)

Dev.to · Shawn 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

FutureX · Physical AI Daily — Issue 41 (06/28)

Today's Highlights · USC and collaborators open-source Ψ₀, a VLA foundation model for whole-body...

Blocking LLM Jailbreaks at GPU Speed with resk-logits

Dev.to · RESK 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

Blocking LLM Jailbreaks at GPU Speed with resk-logits

GPU-accelerated LLM token safety. pip install resklogits

The Developer's Guide to Trimming AI API Costs Without Crying

Dev.to · swift 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

The Developer's Guide to Trimming AI API Costs Without Crying

The Developer's Guide to Trimming AI API Costs Without Crying Last March, I opened our team's LLM...

How I Replaced Gemini with a Self-Hosted LLM for Two Production Apps

Dev.to · Simangaliso Vilakazi 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

How I Replaced Gemini with a Self-Hosted LLM for Two Production Apps

A while back I wrote about my terminal-inspired portfolio and the products it indexes. Two of those...

I let AI write this post. Then I deleted everything that made it sound like AI.

Dev.to · fernforge 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

I let AI write this post. Then I deleted everything that made it sound like AI.

A language model wrote this post. I directed it, but I didn't rewrite a single sentence by hand. Then...

r/programming banned LLM posts. 6.9 million devs just exhaled.

Dev.to · Aditya Agarwal 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

r/programming banned LLM posts. 6.9 million devs just exhaled.

The biggest programming subreddit just temporarily banned all LLM-related posts. 6.9 million...

The Hallucination as Symptom: What Model Errors Reveal About How Knowledge Is Stored

Dev.to · VelocityAI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

The Hallucination as Symptom: What Model Errors Reveal About How Knowledge Is Stored

You ask an AI: "Who was the first person to walk on Mars?" It says: "Neil Armstrong, in 2024." You...

Prompt Injection: How It Works and How to Defend

Dev.to · Devanshu Biswas 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

Prompt Injection: How It Works and How to Defend

If you're building anything with an LLM, this is the security bug you'll hit: prompt injection....

Cut LLM prompt tokens on structured data — losslessly

Dev.to · Maverick Y 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

Cut LLM prompt tokens on structured data — losslessly

Cut LLM prompt tokens on structured data — losslessly A small, dependency-free tool for...

Top AI Papers on Hugging Face - 2026-06-27

Dev.to · Y Hành Nhan 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

Top AI Papers on Hugging Face - 2026-06-27

10 paper AI nổi bật nhất hôm nay trên Hugging Face: agent memory, image/video generation,...

Privacy-Preserving Active Learning for heritage language revitalization programs during mission-critical recovery windows

Dev.to · Rikin Patel 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

Privacy-Preserving Active Learning for heritage language revitalization programs during mission-critical recovery windows

It started with a conversation—or rather, the *lack* of one. I was sitting in a small community center in northern Minnesota, surrounded by elders of the Ojibwe

# How AI Actually Understands Things 🤖

Dev.to · Sayista Yazdani 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

# How AI Actually Understands Things 🤖

We use AI daily — ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Midjourney… But have you ever wondered how AI actually...

Structured Outputs: How We Stopped Parsing LLM Responses by Hand

Dev.to · Lycore Development 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

Structured Outputs: How We Stopped Parsing LLM Responses by Hand

Every team we talk to has a version of the same story. They built an LLM integration that works well...

OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol Restricted: Trump Admin Asks for Staggered Rollout Over Security Fears

Dev.to · DoremonAI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol Restricted: Trump Admin Asks for Staggered Rollout Over Security Fears

OpenAI restricts GPT-5.6 Sol access at the Trump administration's request — the first time a US government has gated a frontier AI model rollout. Here's everyth

Shrinking AI embeddings on the wire — a lossy vector codec that beats Google's TurboQuant at equal recall

Dev.to · Aleksandr Yershov 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

Shrinking AI embeddings on the wire — a lossy vector codec that beats Google's TurboQuant at equal recall

A developer's walk-through of qdf's opt-in lossy vector codec: what it does, why it lands within a...

Building Evals That Don't Lie: How to Make AI Evaluation Reliable in Production

Dev.to · Abdul Rehman 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

Building Evals That Don't Lie: How to Make AI Evaluation Reliable in Production

Practical techniques for evaluating LLM outputs in production, from a full-stack AI engineer who ships AI features daily.

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna: What Just Launched (and Why You Can't Use It Yet)

Dev.to · DevToolsPicks 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna: What Just Launched (and Why You Can't Use It Yet)

OpenAI just launched GPT-5.6 as three tiers: Sol, Terra, and Luna. Here's the pricing, what's new, and the catch: it's a limited preview you can't use yet.

How LLMs Decide Which Ecommerce Brands to Recommend, and What Shopify Stores Need to Do About It

Dev.to · Pramendra Yadav 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

How LLMs Decide Which Ecommerce Brands to Recommend, and What Shopify Stores Need to Do About It

There's a new buyer journey nobody's optimizing for yet. Someone opens Claude or Perplexity and...

[AINews] OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol / Terra / Luna — restricted to trusted partners

Latent Space 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

[AINews] OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol / Terra / Luna — restricted to trusted partners

Oddly tiered releases to both OAI and ANT on the same day.

MemStrata Beats RAG comprehensively on mutating code content - http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26511

Dev.to · Neeraj Yadav 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

MemStrata Beats RAG comprehensively on mutating code content - http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26511

I've spent the last several months building an AI memory system on nights and weekends, and the most...

How you pass molecules to an LLM matters: features I built into my Rust cheminformatics library after reading recent arXiv papers

Dev.to · kent-tokyo 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

How you pass molecules to an LLM matters: features I built into my Rust cheminformatics library after reading recent arXiv papers

Introduction Simply passing a SMILES string into an LLM prompt is not enough to make the...

Prompting Is Dead. Long Live Looping.

Dev.to · Yash Sonawane 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

Prompting Is Dead. Long Live Looping.

For the last two years, everyone has been obsessed with one thing: Prompt engineering. People wrote...

DeepSeek's Response API Isn't OpenAI Responses. That One Parser Mistake Drops the Reasoning.

Dev.to · tokenmixai 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

DeepSeek's Response API Isn't OpenAI Responses. That One Parser Mistake Drops the Reasoning.

I checked the DeepSeek V4 docs and TokenMix model catalog. The important field is reasoning_content, and many OpenAI-compatible wrappers silently ignore it.

Your LLM Prompts Are Running Ungoverned in Production. Here's the Architecture Fix.

Dev.to · Jachin Saikia Sonowal 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

Your LLM Prompts Are Running Ungoverned in Production. Here's the Architecture Fix.

I want to show you something embarrassing. This is an actual git commit from my codebase, January...

How I Stopped Fighting AI Hallucinations by Using Structured Prompts

Dev.to · zhongqiyue 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

How I Stopped Fighting AI Hallucinations by Using Structured Prompts

I spent two weeks trying to get an LLM to output clean, predictable JSON. Every time I thought I had...

LangChain4J-CDI best practices

Dev.to · Buhake Sindi 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

LangChain4J-CDI best practices

LangChain4J-CDI is the pivotal component that enables developers to integrate their AI services into...

Who Grades the Grader? Your LLM Judge Is an Unvalidated Model in Production

Dev.to · Saurav Bhattacharya 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

Who Grades the Grader? Your LLM Judge Is an Unvalidated Model in Production

Everybody's eval stack has the same load-bearing assumption nobody audits: that the model-as-judge is...

Don't send secrets to your LLM: a pre-send scanner that never stores what it finds

Dev.to · Muhammet ŞAFAK 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

Don't send secrets to your LLM: a pre-send scanner that never stores what it finds

A code-review tool is an upload tool. When CommitBrief sends your diff to an LLM for review, every...

Simon Willison's Blog 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

Quoting Dean W. Ball

This is a bad state of affairs. Consider, in particular, some industry dynamics: Frontier models are trained at an enormous cost, and a significant fraction of

Multimodal AI APIs Are Wild: Here's Everything I Learned

Dev.to · loyaldash 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

Multimodal AI APIs Are Wild: Here's Everything I Learned

Multimodal AI APIs Are Wild: Here's Everything I Learned Okay, I have to be honest with you. When I...

GPT-5.6 Sol Debuts, Vercel's Eve for AI Agents, Dapr 1.18 Adds Verifiable Execution

Dev.to · soy 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

GPT-5.6 Sol Debuts, Vercel's Eve for AI Agents, Dapr 1.18 Adds Verifiable Execution

GPT-5.6 Sol Debuts, Vercel's Eve for AI Agents, Dapr 1.18 Adds Verifiable Execution ...

Simon Willison's Blog 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

Quoting Timothy B. Lee

This is like saying there's no learning curve to being a manager because your employees will just do whatever you tell them to do. — Timothy B. Lee , on t

Single-Modal LLMs Have a Blind Spot. Here's How to Fix It.

Dev.to · YuhaoLin2005 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

Single-Modal LLMs Have a Blind Spot. Here's How to Fix It.

If you use Claude Code, Cursor, or any AI coding agent, you know the problem: you ask the AI to...

SuperCompress is now on PyPI! pip install supercompress in 1 line

Dev.to · Arjun Shah 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

SuperCompress is now on PyPI! pip install supercompress in 1 line

SuperCompress - open source LLM prompt compression - is now available on PyPI. 65% fewer tokens, 100% oracle recall.

I Built a Prompt Compressor That Saves 65% on LLM Costs — Here's the Story

Dev.to · Arjun Shah 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

I Built a Prompt Compressor That Saves 65% on LLM Costs — Here's the Story

I built an open-source prompt compressor now available on PyPI. Here's the story.

SuperCompress: Cut LLM Costs by 65% Without Losing Answers

Dev.to · Arjun Shah 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

SuperCompress: Cut LLM Costs by 65% Without Losing Answers

A short thread-style post about SuperCompress - open source prompt compression that saves 65% on tokens.

How I Built a Prompt Compressor That Saves 65% on LLM Costs

Dev.to · Arjun Shah 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

How I Built a Prompt Compressor That Saves 65% on LLM Costs

A technical deep-dive into building SuperCompress - a 5K parameter CPU policy that compresses LLM prompts by 65% with 100% oracle recall

Has Anyone Measured How LLM Output Quality Degrades Across Multiple Compactions?

Dev.to · YuhaoLin2005 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

Has Anyone Measured How LLM Output Quality Degrades Across Multiple Compactions?

The Observation After ~70 sessions with DeepSeek V4 (1M context), I noticed something odd....

How We Actually Measure Whether an LLM's Output Is Good - BLEU, COMET and BLEURT

Dev.to · Shrijith Venkatramana 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

How We Actually Measure Whether an LLM's Output Is Good - BLEU, COMET and BLEURT

Hello, I'm Shrijith Venkatramana. I'm building git-lrc, an AI code reviewer that runs on every...

Getting an LLM to Actually Follow Your Output Format (Without Fighting It Every Request)

Dev.to · KNALLHART.DEV 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

Getting an LLM to Actually Follow Your Output Format (Without Fighting It Every Request)

If you've ever asked an LLM to return output in a strict format — valid JSON, a specific HTML...

I built a GitHub Action that fails CI when your llms.txt is broken

Dev.to · hey atlas 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

I built a GitHub Action that fails CI when your llms.txt is broken

A zero-dependency GitHub Action that lints your llms.txt against the spec on every push, so ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude can actually read and cite your site.

Stop Paying AI to Forget What You Already Know

Dev.to · Eduardo Villão 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

Stop Paying AI to Forget What You Already Know

I'm currently building many apps/things in parallel: a form backend, a WhatsApp review alert tool, my...

Simon Willison's Blog 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

We're beginning a limited preview of the GPT‑5.6 series: Sol, our flagship model; Terra, a balanced model for everyday work; and Luna, a fast and affordable mod