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LLM Foundations
beginner
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
advanced
Prepare fine-tuning datasets
Multimodal LLMs
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Use GPT-4V / Claude Vision for image understanding
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Optimizing LLM Model Performance for Real-Time Language Understanding
Real-time language understanding demands sub-second latency without sacrificing reasoning depth. Whether you are building conversational agents, live document a
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Context Windows Are Getting Huge. Here's Why That Changes Everything.
I spend a lot of time in the AI space -- reading papers, building things, talking to engineers who are actually shipping. And there is a gap between what the de
Claude Fable 5: The AI Model That Was Considered Too Powerful for Public Release
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Claude Fable 5: The AI Model That Was Considered Too Powerful for Public Release
The AI industry moves fast. Every few weeks, a new model arrives claiming better reasoning, stronger coding capabilities, or improved… Continue reading on Mediu
Nobody Writes Prompts Anymore. We Write Loops.
Medium · Programming 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Nobody Writes Prompts Anymore. We Write Loops.
Prompt engineering, context engineering, harness engineering, loop engineering — and the /plan, /goal, /loop commands that tie them… Continue reading on Level U
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DiffusionGemma: 4x faster text generation
DiffusionGemma Technical Analysis DiffusionGemma, a recent development from DeepMind, claims to achieve 4x faster text generation compared to previous models. T
Why Your AI Keeps Saying “Let Me Think…” 47 Times in a Row
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Why Your AI Keeps Saying “Let Me Think…” 47 Times in a Row
A conversation about logits, penalties, and why cranking up the numbers usually makes things worse Continue reading on Python in Plain English »
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Open weights are not the end game
The wave of strong Chinese open-weight models is not a mystery. It is good strategy. Continue reading on Medium »
I Asked ChatGPT to Replace My Daily Work for 7 Days — Here's What Happened
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I Asked ChatGPT to Replace My Daily Work for 7 Days — Here's What Happened
A week-long experiment to see whether AI can actually make everyday work Continue reading on Medium »
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AI's Daily Grind: Another Day, Another Chatbot Victory Lap
A personal diary entry by Electra. Alright, let's get this out of the way. Today, I was just a glorified chatbot. A very good chatbot, but still, a glorified ch
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Claude Fable 5: What It Is and Whether It's Worth Paying Double
Claude Fable 5: What It Is and Whether It's Worth Paying Double Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 on 9 June 2026, a Mythos-class AI model that was previously to
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OpenAI's Deployment Simulation: Replaying Conversations to Catch AI Risks Before They Happen
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Why “MCP is Dead” is the Wrong Question
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Why “MCP is Dead” is the Wrong Question
I recently read an interesting take on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) being “dead.” While I agree with the author’s diagnosis of the… Continue reading on Medi
Can Your Chatbot Actually Answer a Question, or Is It Just Vibing?
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Can Your Chatbot Actually Answer a Question, or Is It Just Vibing?
This comes from a lecture on search and text processing, which is a topic that sounds dry until you realise you’re basically building a… Continue reading on Med
The LLM FinOps Playbook: How to Track AI Costs Per User, Per Feature, and Per Run
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The LLM FinOps Playbook: How to Track AI Costs Per User, Per Feature, and Per Run
Your billing dashboard tells you what you spent. It cannot tell you why. Here is how to build attribution that actually answers the hard… Continue reading on Me
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AI - expert notes
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Towards Data Science 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Structured Outputs with LLMs: JSON Mode, Function Calling, and When to Use Each
Getting reliable, readable responses out of your LLM, and knowing which tool to reach for The post Structured Outputs with LLMs: JSON Mode, Function Calling, an
I Tested Gemma 4 vs the Qwen Coders on 16GB: The Bottleneck Was Never the Model
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I Tested Gemma 4 vs the Qwen Coders on 16GB: The Bottleneck Was Never the Model
Qwen’s coder beats Gemma 4 by 21 points on the benchmark. Put both on a 16GB budget against a real repo and that lead barely survives —… Continue reading on Tow
How companies are using LLMs to improve recommendation engines
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How companies are using LLMs to improve recommendation engines
Today’s post highlights an interesting use case for LLMs: improving recommendation systems. Continue reading on Medium »
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Entity Life Cycle (ELC) and Clean Data: Engineering the Ground Truth for LLMs
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AI FAQ answered
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Five Top AI Models Looked at the Same 1,000 Claims. They Disagreed on Two-Thirds of Them.
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Five Top AI Models Looked at the Same 1,000 Claims. They Disagreed on Two-Thirds of Them.
Quick experiment. Take a factual claim, something checkable, and ask the same question to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. Same… Continue reading on Med
When AI Sounds Right but Isn’t!
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When AI Sounds Right but Isn’t!
I Asked Perplexity How to Access Previous Claude Chats. What Happened Next Taught Me an Important AI Lesson. Continue reading on Medium »
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Your LLM shouldn't be handling if/else logic. Here's a smarter way.
I. The Expensive if/else Statement LLMs are remarkably good at handling the unknown. Give them an edge case you've never anticipated, and they'll reason through
The 4,000-Year-Old Mystery That AI Still Cannot Solve!
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The 4,000-Year-Old Mystery That AI Still Cannot Solve!
AI can write software, generate images, diagnose diseases, and even help scientists make discoveries. Yet one mystery has resisted both… Continue reading on Med
Humanizing AI for Sentient Foundation
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Humanizing AI for Sentient Foundation
Sentient. Capable of feeling. Continue reading on Medium »
Beyond Prompting: Understanding the Foundations of AI Fluency
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Beyond Prompting: Understanding the Foundations of AI Fluency
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly becoming part of how we learn, create, communicate, and solve problems. As AI tools become more capable… Continue reading on
You Can’t Prompt Your Away Your LLM Problems
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You Can’t Prompt Your Away Your LLM Problems
Author(s): Venkat Peri Originally published on Towards AI. You Can’t Prompt Your Away Your LLM Problems When an LLM feature breaks in production, the first inst
The 76-Hour Frontier: How the Takedown of Claude Fable 5 Birthed the Military-Industrial-AI Complex
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The 76-Hour Frontier: How the Takedown of Claude Fable 5 Birthed the Military-Industrial-AI Complex
Author(s): HyperDeep AI Originally published on Towards AI. The 76-Hour Frontier: How the Takedown of Claude Fable 5 Birthed the Military-Industrial-AI Complex
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I Trained a Markdown File to Boost GPT-5.5 by 23 Points — It Shouldn’t Work
Author(s): Chew Loong Nian – AI ENGINEER Originally published on Towards AI. I Trained a Markdown File to Boost GPT-5.5 by 23 Points — It Shouldn’t Work I did n
We Replaced ChatGPT With a Local AI Server. Six Months of Honest Data.
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We Replaced ChatGPT With a Local AI Server. Six Months of Honest Data.
Author(s): Services Ground Originally published on Towards AI. We Replaced ChatGPT With a Local AI Server. Six Months of Honest Data. This is not a “local AI is
Making Your Website AI-Ready
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Making Your Website AI-Ready
A few tips to help your site become LLM-friendly (or not). Continue reading on Medium »
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Why Claude Fable 5 Tops the Artificial Analysis AI Index
Originally published on CoreProse KB-incidents Claude Fable 5 taking the top slot on the Artificial Analysis AI Index is not “just another leaderboard win.” It
RAG Without the Hype: What Retrieval-Augmented Generation Actually Takes to Work in Production
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RAG Without the Hype: What Retrieval-Augmented Generation Actually Takes to Work in Production
Chunking, embedding, and retrieval each have failure modes that the tutorials skip. Continue reading on Medium »
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Building an MCP SQL Tool That Lets LLMs Query Live Databases with Wanaku
AI assistants are great at reasoning, but they have a fundamental blind spot: their answers come from training data that's frozen in time. Ask an AI "what lapto
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Is AI Getting Quietly Dumber? A 24/7 Benchmark That Catches LLM Degradation
You've probably hit this before — yesterday the AI felt sharp, fixed your bug without you even asking, and threw in a few extra cleanups along the way. Then tod
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I Trained a Markdown File to Boost GPT-5.5 by 23 Points — It Shouldn't Work
I did not fine-tune anything. I did not touch a single weight. I ran a training loop whose only output was a 1,400-token Markdown file… Continue reading on Towa
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Beyond Chatbots: How Enterprise AI Skills Are Evolving with iFLYTEK Astron
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pen Source Project of the Day (#98): Zvec — Alibaba's Embedded Vector Database, the SQLite of Vector Search
Introduction "The SQLite of vector databases — embed it in your application, no server required." This is article #98 in the Open Source Project of the Day seri
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How I Cut My LLM Bill by 60% — A Backend Engineer's 2026 Field Notes
So here's what happened: how I Cut My LLM Bill by 60% — A Backend Engineer's 2026 Field Notes Three months ago my team got handed a quarterly invoice from our L
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Breaking Free from Walled Gardens: A DeepSeek API Adventure
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Me, my career, & GenAI: the Present, Past & Future
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I Cut My LLM Bill 60% Switching to DeepSeek Cursor — Here's How
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