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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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Evaluate the whole setup, not just the model: a practical workflow for video VLMs
Dev.to · visionLMs 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Evaluate the whole setup, not just the model: a practical workflow for video VLMs
This is a reworked, shorter version of a research note we wrote on the VideoDB Labs blog. I work on...
Stop Pasting Raw CSVs Into ChatGPT: A Data Scientist's Guide to LLM Context Engineering
Dev.to · Arian Mokhtariha 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Stop Pasting Raw CSVs Into ChatGPT: A Data Scientist's Guide to LLM Context Engineering
Your LLM doesn't need 50,000 rows. It needs the right 15. There's a mistake I see data scientists...
A mesh of old phones as bodies, LLM agents as minds — coordinating through a log they argue in
Dev.to · ilya mozerov 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
A mesh of old phones as bodies, LLM agents as minds — coordinating through a log they argue in
The shared log in my house has entries I didn't write. The agents write them to each other. Recent...
The LLM Citation Test: 5 Prompts to Run Before You Publish
Dev.to · VentureIO 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The LLM Citation Test: 5 Prompts to Run Before You Publish
5 copy-paste prompts to run in Claude, ChatGPT, or Perplexity before you hit publish -- revealing whether your content will be cited in AI-generated answers.
I Built a Prompt Forging Engine with NVIDIA Llama 3.1 70B for Google Prompt Wars 2026
Dev.to · Divyansh 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Built a Prompt Forging Engine with NVIDIA Llama 3.1 70B for Google Prompt Wars 2026
What if you could take any weak, vague prompt and instantly transform it into an elite,...
The Scaling Laws That Made LLMs Work
Dev.to · Shrijith Venkatramana 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The Scaling Laws That Made LLMs Work
Hello, I'm Shrijith Venkatramana. I'm building git-lrc, an AI code reviewer that runs on every...
Simon Willison's Blog 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Quoting Tom MacWright
In the last few months, I've started to see [job applications] that were clearly cowritten by an LLM, link to an LLM-generated portfolio site, which then links
Shipping a Local LLM API with FastAPI and Ollama
Dev.to · Nur Ahmad 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Shipping a Local LLM API with FastAPI and Ollama
Phase 2 of the de-swarm project — how I turned a 3B text-to-SQL model into a production API for...
Token economics: from model internals to agent costs
Dev.to · Venu gopal varma Bhupathiraju 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Token economics: from model internals to agent costs
LLM debates usually focus on parameter counts and benchmark scores. But in production, a much simpler...
Top 5 LLM Gateways in 2026
Dev.to · Elise Moreau 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Top 5 LLM Gateways in 2026
As enterprise adoption of generative AI accelerates, teams are moving away from direct, hard-coded...
I let GPT-4o and a cheaper model fight over my inbox. GPT-4o lost.
Dev.to · yongrean 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I let GPT-4o and a cheaper model fight over my inbox. GPT-4o lost.
Here's the scoreboard. Same 50 emails, same prompt, same 4-tier...
Klein Blue scores Lc -12 as text — here's the two-slot fix
Dev.to · J Now 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Klein Blue scores Lc -12 as text — here's the two-slot fix
I read Claude Code output for hours every day: tool results, reasoning traces, permission prompts,...
RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers
Dev.to · Aman Shekhar 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers
I've been diving headfirst into the world of AI lately, and let me tell you, it’s been a wild ride....
Every course shows you the happy path: prompt > response > ship it > congratulations, you’re an AI engineer now.
Dev.to · Fahad Bin Siddique 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Every course shows you the happy path: prompt > response > ship it > congratulations, you’re an AI engineer now.
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Why RAG Isn't Enough: Building RationaleVault for Cognitive Continuity
Dev.to · Satya Anudeep 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Why RAG Isn't Enough: Building RationaleVault for Cognitive Continuity
Why RAG Isn't Enough: Building RationaleVault for Cognitive Continuity Retrieval-Augmented...
How to move from an LLM demo to a production-ready healthcare AI agent
Dev.to · Kajol Shah 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How to move from an LLM demo to a production-ready healthcare AI agent
From LLM Demo to Healthcare AI Agent: What Developers Need to Build Around the Model Building an AI...
RAG Explained: Give an LLM Your Own Knowledge
Dev.to · Devanshu Biswas 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
RAG Explained: Give an LLM Your Own Knowledge
An LLM doesn't know your company's docs, last week's news, or your private data — and it'll...
The OpenAI API everyone copied isn't the one OpenAI recommends
Dev.to · Ron Northcutt 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The OpenAI API everyone copied isn't the one OpenAI recommends
I kept seeing "OpenAI-compatible" stamped on projects that have nothing to do with OpenAI. Ollama....
Chain-of-Verification: Make an LLM Fact-Check Itself
Dev.to · Devanshu Biswas 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Chain-of-Verification: Make an LLM Fact-Check Itself
LLMs state wrong facts with total confidence. Chain-of-Verification (CoVe) is a prompting pattern...
Why I Run AI Locally Instead of Using ChatGPT for Client Work
Dev.to · StickyTr33 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Why I Run AI Locally Instead of Using ChatGPT for Client Work
Let me start with a question my clients ask me a lot: "Can't we just use ChatGPT for this?" My...
Sipp: a local-first runtime for Hybrid AI Applications
Dev.to · Constant, Yuan Chen 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Sipp: a local-first runtime for Hybrid AI Applications
Over the past few months, I had the opportunity to contribute to llama.cpp’s WebGPU backend, helping...
Real photos in ChatGPT, 30-second AI video, and AI inside A24 — 3 stories that blur "real vs AI" media
Dev.to · danio 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Real photos in ChatGPT, 30-second AI video, and AI inside A24 — 3 stories that blur "real vs AI" media
Three AI stories landed this week that all poke at the same nerve: the images, video, and films we...
I edited a system prompt and had no way to prove it changed anything. So I built a measurement tool.
Dev.to · OmarMashal 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I edited a system prompt and had no way to prove it changed anything. So I built a measurement tool.
I edited a system prompt and had no way to prove it changed anything. So I built a...
GLM 5.2: why I’m replacing Opus in Claude Code with this new model
Lenny's Newsletter 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
GLM 5.2: why I’m replacing Opus in Claude Code with this new model
Watch now | ️I ran GLM-5.2, the open-weight model from Z.AI, through codebase audits, UI redesigns, and a 45-minute autonomous bug-hunting task in Cursor and C
How LLM agents confabulate infrastructure and data provenance
Dev.to · Bryan Clark 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How LLM agents confabulate infrastructure and data provenance
Give an agent a tool that returns a number and ask it a question, and it will often answer with the...
GLM 5.2 Is Now Available on TokenBay: Testing It with the OpenAI SDK
Dev.to · plasma 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
GLM 5.2 Is Now Available on TokenBay: Testing It with the OpenAI SDK
GLM 5.2 is now available on TokenBay. If you're already using the OpenAI SDK, this means you can try...
Building a Multilingual AI Chatbot for Indian Languages with Qwen 3
Dev.to · tokencnn 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Building a Multilingual AI Chatbot for Indian Languages with Qwen 3
The Challenge Most LLMs are English-centric. For Indian developers building apps for...
Claude Fable 5 (Mythos-Class) for Polymarket Trading Bots: The Long-Context Agentic Leap Developers Needed
Dev.to · FatherSon 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Claude Fable 5 (Mythos-Class) for Polymarket Trading Bots: The Long-Context Agentic Leap Developers Needed
Anthropic dropped Claude Fable 5 on June 9, 2026 — the first public Mythos-class model. It’s the...
From Transcript to Typed Action Items: Three Parallel Agents in TypeScript
Dev.to · JackChen 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
From Transcript to Typed Action Items: Three Parallel Agents in TypeScript
Most meeting summarizers cram summary, action items, and sentiment into one LLM prompt. Here's a cleaner TypeScript shape: three specialist agents run in parall
Using LLMs for slide: MDPR + mdpr-skill
Dev.to · cchsh 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Using LLMs for slide: MDPR + mdpr-skill
I have been building MDPR, a deterministic Markdown-to-editable-PPTX runtime, and mdpr-skill, an...
Claude vs Gemini vs ChatGPT: Which AI Tool Is Best in 2026?
Dev.to · Maryam Fatima 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Claude vs Gemini vs ChatGPT: Which AI Tool Is Best in 2026?
Claude vs Gemini vs ChatGPT: Which AI Tool Is Best in 2026? Introduction Artificial Intelligence...
The Complete Guide to OpenAI-Compatible APIs for Chinese LLMs
Dev.to · Zhouxia Qian 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The Complete Guide to OpenAI-Compatible APIs for Chinese LLMs
A technical comparison of OpenAI-compatible API gateways that provide access to DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM, and other Chinese models — covering migration, cost, latenc
How to Use Chinese LLMs (Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM) Without a Chinese Phone Number
Dev.to · Zhouxia Qian 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How to Use Chinese LLMs (Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM) Without a Chinese Phone Number
The complete guide to accessing Chinese AI models from overseas — including Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM, and others — without needing +86 SMS verification or Alipay.
Google Lost the Transformer's Co-Author. Then AlphaFold. Same Week.
Dev.to · Peremptory 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Google Lost the Transformer's Co-Author. Then AlphaFold. Same Week.
Noam Shazeer, co-author of \"Attention Is All You Need,\" left Google for OpenAI on June 18. Days later, Nobel laureate John Jumper left for Anthropic. Both exi
GLM-5.2: The Open-Weight Model Challenging GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus at a Fraction of the Cost
Dev.to · ail akram 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
GLM-5.2: The Open-Weight Model Challenging GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus at a Fraction of the Cost
GLM-5.2, released on June 13, 2026 by Z.ai, the commercial brand of Tsinghua University-spawned Zhipu...
Why I Didn't Use an AST Parser in My AI Code Commenter (And Why That's the Right Call)
Dev.to · Wahaj 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Why I Didn't Use an AST Parser in My AI Code Commenter (And Why That's the Right Call)
Every AI code documentation tool I looked at had the same problem: it sent your entire file to an LLM...
One API Key for GPT, Claude, Gemini, and Qwen: A Practical Guide to OpenAI-Compatible Model Routing
Dev.to · plasma 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
One API Key for GPT, Claude, Gemini, and Qwen: A Practical Guide to OpenAI-Compatible Model Routing
If you've built anything serious with LLM APIs, you've probably hit this pattern: GPT is great for...
Stop letting your AI agent eyeball A/B picks — wire in a real contextual bandit via MCP (free, no key)
Dev.to · Whatsonyourmind 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Stop letting your AI agent eyeball A/B picks — wire in a real contextual bandit via MCP (free, no key)
If you give an LLM agent a table of A/B variants and ask "which one should we send next?", it will...
Bootstrap confidence intervals for your LLM eval metrics
Dev.to · Marcus Chen 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Bootstrap confidence intervals for your LLM eval metrics
TL;DR: A single eval number hides its own uncertainty. Eval confidence intervals from bootstrap...
The Invisible 99%: Why Low-Resource Languages Need More AI Research
Dev.to · Jehadur Rahman (Emran) 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The Invisible 99%: Why Low-Resource Languages Need More AI Research
In the current landscape of rapid AI development, large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and LLaMA...
The Physical Laws of AI Migrations: Architecting an LLM Orchestrator that Survives Reality
Dev.to · M Hossein 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The Physical Laws of AI Migrations: Architecting an LLM Orchestrator that Survives Reality
Large codebase migrations are not typing problems; they are distributed state machine problems. When...
How I Cut My AI Bill by 62% — A Freelancer's Guide to Context Windows in 2026
Dev.to · rarenode 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How I Cut My AI Bill by 62% — A Freelancer's Guide to Context Windows in 2026
How I Cut My AI Bill by 62% — A Freelancer's Guide to Context Windows in 2026 Every month, I sit...
I built a local-first LLM code reviewer in Go. Here's the entire pipeline.
Dev.to · Muhammet ŞAFAK 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I built a local-first LLM code reviewer in Go. Here's the entire pipeline.
CommitBrief is a local-first CLI that runs an LLM review over your git diff before a teammate — or...
The Pattern Nobody Wants to Name Why Your LLM Can't Help You Debug Code Changes (And How to Fix It)
Dev.to · Sarkar 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The Pattern Nobody Wants to Name Why Your LLM Can't Help You Debug Code Changes (And How to Fix It)
You ask Claude: "Why is my app slow after I deployed this code change?" Claude gives you generic...
Valsorda: con LLMs, los reportes de vulnerabilidades ya no son especiales
Dev.to · lu1tr0n 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Valsorda: con LLMs, los reportes de vulnerabilidades ya no son especiales
Filippo Valsorda, ex-líder del equipo de seguridad de Go, argumenta que en 2026 los LLM volvieron abundante la insight de seguridad: el cuello de bote
A drop-in, ownable memory for LangChain and LlamaIndex — over MCP
Dev.to · SAIHM-Admin 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
A drop-in, ownable memory for LangChain and LlamaIndex — over MCP
by the Architect · Apache-2.0 If you build agents, you have already met the memory problem. The...
How LLM Tokens Work (And Why They Explain Your AI Bill)
Dev.to · thestackunderflow 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How LLM Tokens Work (And Why They Explain Your AI Bill)
Your LLM never reads your words — it reads tokens. And almost every surprise on your AI bill traces...
Mitigating Algorithmic Bias and Hallucinations in LLM-Driven Job Matching: A Compliance Framework for the EU AI Act and DSA
Dev.to · Maria jose Gonzalez Antelo 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Mitigating Algorithmic Bias and Hallucinations in LLM-Driven Job Matching: A Compliance Framework for the EU AI Act and DSA
Meta: Learn how to mitigate LLM hallucinations and algorithmic bias in job matching systems to ensure...