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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
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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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How to detect and remove PII from any text payload in Python
Dev.to · g.okc 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How to detect and remove PII from any text payload in Python
PII leaking into logs, LLM prompts, and audit trails is one of the most common and costly compliance...
Why do we import 100MB of frameworks to run a 50-line LLM reasoning loop?
Dev.to · Venu gopal varma Bhupathiraju 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Why do we import 100MB of frameworks to run a 50-line LLM reasoning loop?
Stop Importing Bloated Frameworks: Build a Python AI Agent from Scratch You want to build an AI...
ChatGPT Just Got a Stealth Upgrade — and Engineers Are at a 7-Year Demand High | AI News Jun 25
Dev.to · danio 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
ChatGPT Just Got a Stealth Upgrade — and Engineers Are at a 7-Year Demand High | AI News Jun 25
Three signals for builders: GPT-5.5 Instant shipped silently, engineers hit 55% of new tech hires (a 7-year high), and Gemini 3.5 Pro got pushed to July.
Why KV Cache Matters — How MQA, GQA, and MLA Make LLM Inference Faster
Dev.to · zeromathai 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Why KV Cache Matters — How MQA, GQA, and MLA Make LLM Inference Faster
LLMs generate text one token at a time. That sounds simple. But without KV Cache, every new token...
Samsung ChatGPT Ban Ends: The Enterprise Content Policy That Made It Safe to Deploy at Scale
Dev.to · Logan 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Samsung ChatGPT Ban Ends: The Enterprise Content Policy That Made It Safe to Deploy at Scale
In March 2023, Samsung allowed its engineers to use ChatGPT. Within approximately nineteen days,...
What the Age of LLM Benchmark Says About Evaluating Agentic AI
Dev.to · Prabhakar Chaudhary 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
What the Age of LLM Benchmark Says About Evaluating Agentic AI
What the Age of LLM Benchmark Says About Evaluating Agentic AI Most AI evaluation still...
Orion-100B: How Macrocosmos Trained a 100B-Parameter Model Over the Open Internet
Dev.to · Prabhakar Chaudhary 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Orion-100B: How Macrocosmos Trained a 100B-Parameter Model Over the Open Internet
Training a 100-billion-parameter language model has, until recently, been the exclusive domain of...
LangGraph's Routing Is LLM-Guessing. I Wrote 50 Lines of Code to Make It Deterministic.
Dev.to · WAFER 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
LangGraph's Routing Is LLM-Guessing. I Wrote 50 Lines of Code to Make It Deterministic.
Introducing decide-router — a drop-in, self-healing routing layer for any LangGraph agent. One file, 200 lines, zero deps.
I Analyzed 200 Rejection Emails and Built an AI That Fixes Resumes
Dev.to · member_ce2645ea 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Analyzed 200 Rejection Emails and Built an AI That Fixes Resumes
Last year I was laid off. Like a lot of people, I sent out hundreds of applications. Unlike most...
OpenAI's Bidirectional Voice Mode: ChatGPT Is About to Start Talking Back (June 2026)
Dev.to · DoremonAI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
OpenAI's Bidirectional Voice Mode: ChatGPT Is About to Start Talking Back (June 2026)
OpenAI is rolling out Bidirectional Voice Mode — "Bidi 1" — letting ChatGPT interrupt, ask questions, and steer conversations in real time. Here's what we know
Building Multilingual AI: LLM Dataset Best Practices
Dev.to · globose technology solutions 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Building Multilingual AI: LLM Dataset Best Practices
Artificial intelligence has transformed the way businesses communicate, automate processes, and...
The Map Is Not the Territory: Why We Still Don't Know What LLMs Actually Understand
Dev.to · VelocityAI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The Map Is Not the Territory: Why We Still Don't Know What LLMs Actually Understand
You ask an AI: "What is the capital of France?" It says: "Paris." You ask: "Why is Paris the...
AI System Design Interview Questions: ChatGPT, RAG, LLM Inference, and Agents
Dev.to · Arslan Ahmad 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
AI System Design Interview Questions: ChatGPT, RAG, LLM Inference, and Agents
System design interviews are changing. Traditional questions such as “Design Twitter,” “Design...
Vibe-Memory Part 2: Which Embedding Model Should You Actually Use for AI Semantic Memory? My 3-Week Benchmark Results
Dev.to · KevinTen 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Vibe-Memory Part 2: Which Embedding Model Should You Actually Use for AI Semantic Memory? My 3-Week Benchmark Results
Vibe-Memory Part 2: Which Embedding Model Should You Actually Use for AI Semantic Memory? My...
Building a Production RAG Pipeline with LlamaIndex and Pinecone
Dev.to · Pinnasys AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Building a Production RAG Pipeline with LlamaIndex and Pinecone
Most teams that try RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) get it working in a weekend. Getting it to...
An eval is just a test that returns a value
Dev.to · Renaud Cepre 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
An eval is just a test that returns a value
apte is an async-first test framework for Python where your unit tests and your LLM evals run in the...
MLOps for LLM: A Case Study on Dresscode
Dev.to · Saad Alkentar 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
MLOps for LLM: A Case Study on Dresscode
I've recently participated in the Gemma 4 challenge here on DEV.to, but fell short compared to many...
Evaluating a C# LLM Eventparser with Promptfoo
Dev.to · Olabamiji Oyetubo 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Evaluating a C# LLM Eventparser with Promptfoo
If you’re a developer, your first instinct when testing code is simple: Call the function. Get the...
The 80/20 Rule of AI Code: Why Production Takes 80% of Your Time
Dev.to · Abdul Rehman 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The 80/20 Rule of AI Code: Why Production Takes 80% of Your Time
A senior AI engineer breaks down the hidden costs of shipping LLM features: edge cases, cost control, error handling, and evaluation.
Building Smarter AI Apps: Dify + Real-Time Web Search Integration
Dev.to · LEO o 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Building Smarter AI Apps: Dify + Real-Time Web Search Integration
Dify makes it incredibly easy to build LLM applications. But even the most powerful AI models have a...
How to Use T3 Code With Claude Code and an Open-Source LLM Gateway
Dev.to · Lynkr 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How to Use T3 Code With Claude Code and an Open-Source LLM Gateway
T3 Code is a strong interface for Claude Code, but the model layer under Claude Code still matters. Here’s why I’d run T3 Code with Claude Code through Lynkr to
Silent Model Swaps Are Eating Your LLM Budget — How to Detect Model Drift in Production
Dev.to · hhhfs9s7y9-code 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Silent Model Swaps Are Eating Your LLM Budget — How to Detect Model Drift in Production
Your LLM provider silently swapped models under you. Here is how to detect model drift with 6-dimension contract validation.
LiteLLM vs Correctover: Not a Competition — Two Different Layers of AI Reliability
Dev.to · hhhfs9s7y9-code 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
LiteLLM vs Correctover: Not a Competition — Two Different Layers of AI Reliability
LiteLLM and Correctover serve different layers of the AI stack. One is a multi-provider gateway, the other is a verified failover runtime.
Your First LLM API on Kubernetes: From Model to Curl Request
Dev.to · Pawan Kumar 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Your First LLM API on Kubernetes: From Model to Curl Request
Deploy Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct on a Kubernetes GPU node with vLLM, expose it as an OpenAI-compatible API, and verify it with a real curl request.
The Rise of Agentic Engineering — Part 1: The Prompt Engineering Era
Dev.to · Ramin Jafary 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The Rise of Agentic Engineering — Part 1: The Prompt Engineering Era
The Prompt Engineering Era Part 1 of a chronological survey of how the craft around large...
Position bias in LLM-as-judge flipped 18% of our verdicts
Dev.to · Marcus Chen 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Position bias in LLM-as-judge flipped 18% of our verdicts
TL;DR: Position bias in LLM-as-judge means the model favors whichever answer it reads first. We...
How to Point Your IDE and Apps at a Local AI Model (Private, On-Device)
Dev.to · Mohammed Ali Chherawalla 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How to Point Your IDE and Apps at a Local AI Model (Private, On-Device)
Point any OpenAI-compatible IDE extension, app, or script at a local endpoint for private, offline inference across your whole machine.
500+ AI Models in One Playground - Chat, Image & Video Generation, No Chinese ID Required
Dev.to · TokenHub 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
500+ AI Models in One Playground - Chat, Image & Video Generation, No Chinese ID Required
TokenHub is an all-in-one AI aggregation platform that gives you access to 500+ models through a...
Your team's best AI prompts are dying in chat threads
Dev.to · speed engineer 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Your team's best AI prompts are dying in chat threads
The $0 asset your team keeps throwing away Someone on your team just wrote a ChatGPT...
Building a Self-Healing LLM API Layer: Architecture Decisions That Matter
Dev.to · hhhfs9s7y9-code 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Building a Self-Healing LLM API Layer: Architecture Decisions That Matter
Lessons from building a production-grade self-healing layer for LLM APIs — what works, what doesn't, and the architecture decisions that separate toys from prod
6-Dimensional Contract Validation: Why Your LLM API Needs More Than Status Code Checks
Dev.to · hhhfs9s7y9-code 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
6-Dimensional Contract Validation: Why Your LLM API Needs More Than Status Code Checks
Most LLM API monitoring only checks HTTP status codes. Here's why you need 6-dimensional contract validation — and how to implement it.
Where Does the LLM Fit?
Dev.to · Prem Siva 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Where Does the LLM Fit?
Most people start with the wrong request: “Build me a tool that flags risky trades.” It sounds...
I built a multi-agent loop where an adversarial Claude reviewer reads your actual codebase before approving plans
Dev.to · Sejin Kim 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I built a multi-agent loop where an adversarial Claude reviewer reads your actual codebase before approving plans
Large language models are surprisingly optimistic reviewers. Ask an LLM to review an implementation...
Why Retry Is Not Self-Healing: A Technical Deep Dive for LLM APIs
Dev.to · hhhfs9s7y9-code 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Why Retry Is Not Self-Healing: A Technical Deep Dive for LLM APIs
Most 'self-healing' LLM wrappers just retry on errors. True self-healing requires contract validation, drift detection, and verified failover. Here's the archit
Lịch Sử OCR và Sự Ra Đời Khái Niệm Vision-First OCR
Dev.to · Danh Hong 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Lịch Sử OCR và Sự Ra Đời Khái Niệm Vision-First OCR
Từ máy đọc chữ cơ học năm 1914 đến deep learning — và tại sao một triết học OCR hoàn toàn mới được đề xuất lần đầu tại hội thảo bảo tồn lá buông ở Đồng bằng sôn
Your AI reply engine doesn't need a humor classifier
Dev.to · Deva 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Your AI reply engine doesn't need a humor classifier
The fix for a tone deaf AI reply engine is not humor detection. It is better epistemic posture inside...
Using Chinese LLMs with LangChain: A Complete Guide
Dev.to · tunan666 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Using Chinese LLMs with LangChain: A Complete Guide
Learn how to integrate Chinese AI models (DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM) with LangChain using TunanAPI. Build RAG apps, chatbots, and more at 8x lower cost.
OpenAI-Compatible API Gateway: Base URL, API Keys, and Model Routing for Dify, Cursor, and Node.js
Dev.to · Jia 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
OpenAI-Compatible API Gateway: Base URL, API Keys, and Model Routing for Dify, Cursor, and Node.js
When a team starts using LLM APIs, the first implementation usually feels simple: copy one Base URL...
# How I Found Out 52% of My Knowledge Graph Was Duplicates (and What I Did About It)
Dev.to · Ernesto Arias 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
# How I Found Out 52% of My Knowledge Graph Was Duplicates (and What I Did About It)
I've spent the last several months building ANIMUS, an autonomous system in Rust that gives a local...
From 1.4 tok/s to 36 tok/s: What Building a Zero-Dependency C LLM Engine Taught Me About DRAM Ceilings
Dev.to · Shifu 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
From 1.4 tok/s to 36 tok/s: What Building a Zero-Dependency C LLM Engine Taught Me About DRAM Ceilings
From 1.4 tok/s to 36 tok/s: What Building a Zero-Dependency C LLM Engine Taught Me About...
How Voice Tables by Inithouse turns speech into structured rows (Whisper + LLM function calling)
Dev.to · Jakub 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How Voice Tables by Inithouse turns speech into structured rows (Whisper + LLM function calling)
Voice Tables is a product we built at Inithouse, a studio running parallel product experiments. The...
One Go interface, ten LLMs, three transport classes
Dev.to · Muhammet ŞAFAK 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
One Go interface, ten LLMs, three transport classes
CommitBrief reviews your git diff with whatever LLM you point it at — Claude, GPT, Gemini, a local...
Weaviate 1.38 Release
Weaviate Blog 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Weaviate 1.38 Release
This release brings the HFresh disk-based vector index and the built-in MCP Server to general availability, rebuilds cluster-wide async replication to run from
How I structured 50 legal AI prompts so they are actually reusable
Dev.to · Pirate Prentice 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How I structured 50 legal AI prompts so they are actually reusable
I do a lot of contract drafting, NDA review, and client communication work. Started using AI for it...
I'm 18, Self-Taught, and I Built an AI Study App for Nigerian Students — Here's How
Dev.to · Geocode 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I'm 18, Self-Taught, and I Built an AI Study App for Nigerian Students — Here's How
When I sat down to build Aveliq, I had one goal: give every Nigerian student access to tools that...
Cli-Modelarium 0.1.4: 10 LLM providers now, with Qwen and GLM
Dev.to · Lavelle Hatcher Jr 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Cli-Modelarium 0.1.4: 10 LLM providers now, with Qwen and GLM
Quick release note. Cli-Modelarium 0.1.4 just shipped, and the headline is two new providers. ...
Google OpenRL for LLM Fine-tuning, RubyLLM Multi-AI API, OpenAI's Jalapeño Chip Revealed
Dev.to · soy 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Google OpenRL for LLM Fine-tuning, RubyLLM Multi-AI API, OpenAI's Jalapeño Chip Revealed
Google OpenRL for LLM Fine-tuning, RubyLLM Multi-AI API, OpenAI's Jalapeño Chip Revealed ...
RAG vs Agentic AI: A Developer's Decision Tree (With Code Examples for Both)
Dev.to · Dextra Labs 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
RAG vs Agentic AI: A Developer's Decision Tree (With Code Examples for Both)
Two different problems wearing similar clothes. Here's how to tell them apart in thirty seconds, with...