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Deep dives into GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama and the transformers powering modern AI

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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 6d ago
Local Inference Breakthrough: 1-bit Bonsai WebGPU, Ollama Multi-Agent & Gemma4 26B
Local Inference Breakthrough: 1-bit Bonsai WebGPU, Ollama Multi-Agent & Gemma4 26B Today's Highlights Today's highlights feature a 1-bit Bonsai model runnin
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Cloud AI APIs vs. Self-Hosted LLMs: When an Old Phone Beats GPT-4
A Reddit post recently caught my eye — someone turned a Xiaomi 12 Pro into a 24/7 headless AI server running Ollama with a quantized Gemma model on a Snapdragon
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The first time my AI bill scared me into building TokenBar
A few months ago I opened my AI bill and did the dumb double-take every solo dev knows. Not because I had a huge team. Because the cost was invisible while I wa
Synthetic Identity Engineering: The Missing Layer in AI Training Data
Medium · NLP 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Synthetic Identity Engineering: The Missing Layer in AI Training Data
There’s a concept we’ve started using internally that doesn’t seem to exist yet in the standard vocabulary of AI development. Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The Tool and the Thinking — on LLMs, merit, and what we owe the work
Software development and philosophy: more in common than you think Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
I Spent 40 Hours Building AI Prompts for Competitive Intelligence — Here's What Actually Works
I Spent 40 Hours Building AI Prompts for Competitive Intelligence — Here's What Actually Works I run competitive intelligence for SaaS founders. Every week I pr
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Why We Built AutoBot: The WordPress of AI
Three years ago I started building AutoBot because I was tired of renting my own intelligence. Every AI tool I used followed the same playbook: send your data t
The Art of Guessing Fast: Speculative Decoding & Speculative Speculative Decoding
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The Art of Guessing Fast: Speculative Decoding & Speculative Speculative Decoding
From tokens to Saguaro, a beginner-to-expert guide to the most clever inference trick in LLMs right now ; Based on: Leviathan et al. Continue reading on Medium
Observations of Bing and Google Bots in Sparse Semantic Domains
Medium · Deep Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Observations of Bing and Google Bots in Sparse Semantic Domains
By Mitchell D. McPhetridge 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
Obsidian, Wikis, and Agentic RAG: Which Knowledge Base Gives You the Edge?
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Obsidian, Wikis, and Agentic RAG: Which Knowledge Base Gives You the Edge?
The era of “just chunk it and dump it into a vector database” is over. Continue reading on Medium »
The AI We Deserve: Claude Saying “No” Is the Most Human Thing a Machine Has Ever Done
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The AI We Deserve: Claude Saying “No” Is the Most Human Thing a Machine Has Ever Done
What we got in Claude is an LLM that, in some functional sense, developed a point of view. Continue reading on Write A Catalyst »
Deep Dive into LangChain: Architecture, Components, and Building LLM Applications
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Deep Dive into LangChain: Architecture, Components, and Building LLM Applications
1. Introduction to LangChain Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · NLP 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
I Tested 3 Biases in LLM-as-a-Judge. The Confidence Bias Result Was Alarming.
When building an AI evaluation pipeline, most practitioners focus on whether the judge model is accurate. Few ask whether it is fair. Continue reading on Medium
Low-Resource Code Generation with Long-Context LLM and Retrieval Augmented Retrieval
Medium · RAG 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Low-Resource Code Generation with Long-Context LLM and Retrieval Augmented Retrieval
By: Wilton Lam Continue reading on Medium »
The Most Interesting Ways People Use AI
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The Most Interesting Ways People Use AI
How AI is Shaping Society — Sociology and Psychology Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Building a Voice-Controlled AI Agent Architecture and Challenges
How I built an end-to-end voice command system using Groq, Llama 3.3, and mem0 — from speech to action in under 2 seconds. Continue reading on Medium »
From Development to Production: Why LLM Evaluations & Observability Matter
Part 1: The mindset…
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
From Development to Production: Why LLM Evaluations & Observability Matter Part 1: The mindset…
Before I was a software engineer, I was a nurse, pre- and post-operative cardiac, internal medicine, and emergency. In those settings, you… Continue reading on
Claude Changes Everything , And it’s Dangerous .
Medium · Deep Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Claude Changes Everything , And it’s Dangerous .
Mythos is dangerous. Continue reading on Medium »
The Register 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Bad teacher bots can leave hidden marks on model students
Study finds LLMs will smuggle biases into others even if they're scrubbed from training data New research warns about the dangers of teaching LLMs on the output
AI Fluency for Beginners: What I Learned from Anthropic’s Course
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
AI Fluency for Beginners: What I Learned from Anthropic’s Course
A casual, funny, no‑jargon walkthrough of the AI‑fluency lessons that finally made AI make sense. Continue reading on Medium »
Has AI Come to Us, or Have We Gone to AI?
Medium · Programming 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Has AI Come to Us, or Have We Gone to AI?
Has artificial intelligence come to us, or have we gone to AI? Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
LangChain Deep Dive: Building Modular LLM Applications with Python
## 1. Introduction to LangChain Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Data Science 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
LangChain Deep Dive: Building Modular LLM Applications with Python
## 1. Introduction to LangChain Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Python 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
LangChain Deep Dive: Building Modular LLM Applications with Python
## 1. Introduction to LangChain Continue reading on Medium »
Nobody Is QA Testing Their LLM Apps (That's Going to Be a Problem)
Hackernoon 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Nobody Is QA Testing Their LLM Apps (That's Going to Be a Problem)
AI-powered applications don't crash when they fail — they hallucinate confidently, drift silently, and get exploited in ways traditional QA was never designed t
I Found 221 Bugs in vLLM. They All Had the Same Root Cause
Hackernoon 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
I Found 221 Bugs in vLLM. They All Had the Same Root Cause
I audited vLLM's C++ and CUDA code and found 221 places where PyTorch's 64-bit tensor metadata is silently truncated to 32-bit int before being used in GPU buff
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
AI Image Generator Prompts: Mastering Visual AI
Quick Answer Quick Answer Writing prompts for AI image generators (like DALL-E 3, Midjourney, or Stable Diffusion) requires you to stop thinking like a writer a
Search Engine Journal 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The AI Slop Loop via @sejournal, @lilyraynyc
New examples show how AI search tools confidently cite fabricated SEO updates, exposing a growing risk in relying on LLM-generated information. The post The AI
RIP Commercial OCR. An Open-Source Model Just Topped Every Benchmark.
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
RIP Commercial OCR. An Open-Source Model Just Topped Every Benchmark.
A 4B parameter model from a Brooklyn startup is beating GPT-4o and Gemini across 90 languages. Although OCR is not my domain, this one… Continue reading on Towa
2025 AI vs 2026 AI: The Shift No One Announced
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
2025 AI vs 2026 AI: The Shift No One Announced
There was no big announcement when things changed. Continue reading on Medium »
How to Use Claude AI: From Basic Prompts to Powerful Workflows
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
How to Use Claude AI: From Basic Prompts to Powerful Workflows
A practical walkthrough of features, workflows, and real-world use cases Continue reading on Medium »
Google VP Warns Two AI Startup Categories Face Extinction in Sales
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Google VP Warns Two AI Startup Categories Face Extinction in Sales
Darren Mowry predicts doom for LLM wrappers and aggregators while pushing diverse distributed models for real sales impact Continue reading on Medium »
Google VP Warns Two AI Startup Categories Face Extinction in Sales
Medium · Startup 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Google VP Warns Two AI Startup Categories Face Extinction in Sales
Darren Mowry predicts doom for LLM wrappers and aggregators while pushing diverse distributed models for real sales impact Continue reading on Medium »
GoT (Graph of Thoughts) explanation
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
GoT (Graph of Thoughts) explanation
Seminar #3 Continue reading on Medium »
My Claude API Bill Was Growing Fast — Here’s How I Cut It With Semantic Caching
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
My Claude API Bill Was Growing Fast — Here’s How I Cut It With Semantic Caching
TL;DR: My chatbot + RAG app was making repeated, semantically similar Claude API calls — and I was paying for every single one. I built a… Continue reading on M
Local RAG: How I Turned My 10-Year PDF Archive into a Private Search Engine
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Local RAG: How I Turned My 10-Year PDF Archive into a Private Search Engine
I am a digital hoarder. My “Documents” folder is a graveyard of 2014 tax returns, scanned menus from restaurants that closed during the… Continue reading on Med
Andrej Karpathy’s Claude Code Skills
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Andrej Karpathy’s Claude Code Skills
How to create the best Claude Code skills.md? Continue reading on Data Science in Your Pocket »
Andrej Karpathy’s Claude Code Skills
Medium · Data Science 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Andrej Karpathy’s Claude Code Skills
How to create the best Claude Code skills.md? Continue reading on Data Science in Your Pocket »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
How to Use AI to Solve Doubts at 2 AM — A Student's Workflow
Blog Post 8: How to Use AI to Solve Doubts at 2 AM — A Student's Workflow SEO Title: How to Solve Doubts at 2 AM with AI | Student Study Hack Meta Description
Meet The Asian Billionaires Powering The Global AI Boom
Forbes Innovation 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Meet The Asian Billionaires Powering The Global AI Boom
The world’s AI advance has deep roots in Asia, as the region is home to advanced semiconductor manufacturing, rapid data center buildouts and the development of
You Feel Like You Understand — That’s Exactly the Problem
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
You Feel Like You Understand — That’s Exactly the Problem
The Illusion of Learning Continue reading on Medium »
I Used Claude AI Every Day for 30 Days Instead of ChatGPT — Here’s What Nobody Tells You
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
I Used Claude AI Every Day for 30 Days Instead of ChatGPT — Here’s What Nobody Tells You
ChatGPT is the tool everyone knows. Claude is the tool people quietly switch to — and never come back from. Continue reading on Medium »
I Used Claude AI Every Day for 30 Days Instead of ChatGPT — Here’s What Nobody Tells You
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
I Used Claude AI Every Day for 30 Days Instead of ChatGPT — Here’s What Nobody Tells You
ChatGPT is the tool everyone knows. Claude is the tool people quietly switch to — and never come back from. Continue reading on Medium »
Top AI Skills You Need in 2026
Medium · Programming 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Top AI Skills You Need in 2026
The real, practical abilities separating average developers from those quietly building the future Continue reading on Artificial Intelligence in Plain English
Mastering AI: Essential Tips and Strategies for Effective Prompt Engineering — Yapay Zekayı…
Medium · Data Science 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Mastering AI: Essential Tips and Strategies for Effective Prompt Engineering — Yapay Zekayı…
Mastering AI: Essential Tips and Strategies for Effective Prompt Engineering Continue reading on Medium »
TinyBrain++: A Compact, Interpretable Alternative to Black-Box AI
Hackernoon 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
TinyBrain++: A Compact, Interpretable Alternative to Black-Box AI
Large AI models cost millions, run slow, and explain nothing. TinyBrain++ is a compact alternative: 0.002s latency, 10M+ predictions/day on CPU, with human-read
Our Future With AI-And Why I Keep Changing My Mind About It
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Our Future With AI-And Why I Keep Changing My Mind About It
I used to think I had this figured out. The more I learn, the less certain I am — and I think that’s the right place to be. Continue reading on Medium »