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Large Language Models
Deep dives into GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama and the transformers powering modern AI
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LLM Foundations
beginner
Explain how transformers generate text
Prompt Craft
beginner
Write zero-shot and few-shot prompts
LLM Engineering
intermediate
Call LLM APIs with function/tool use
Fine-tuning LLMs
advanced
Prepare fine-tuning datasets
Multimodal LLMs
advanced
Use GPT-4V / Claude Vision for image understanding
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Dev.to · visionLMs
🧠 Large Language Models
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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...

Dev.to · Arian Mokhtariha
🧠 Large Language Models
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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...

Dev.to · ilya mozerov
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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...

Dev.to · VentureIO
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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.

Dev.to · Divyansh
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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,...

Dev.to · Shrijith Venkatramana
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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
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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

Dev.to · Nur Ahmad
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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...

Dev.to · Venu gopal varma Bhupathiraju
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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...

Dev.to · Elise Moreau
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2w ago
Top 5 LLM Gateways in 2026
As enterprise adoption of generative AI accelerates, teams are moving away from direct, hard-coded...

Dev.to · yongrean
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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...

Dev.to · J Now
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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,...

Dev.to · Aman Shekhar
🧠 Large Language Models
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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....

Dev.to · Fahad Bin Siddique
🧠 Large Language Models
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2w ago
Every course shows you the happy path: prompt > response > ship it > congratulations, you’re an AI engineer now.
A post by Fahad Bin Siddique

Dev.to · Satya Anudeep
🧠 Large Language Models
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2w ago
Why RAG Isn't Enough: Building RationaleVault for Cognitive Continuity
Why RAG Isn't Enough: Building RationaleVault for Cognitive Continuity Retrieval-Augmented...

Dev.to · Kajol Shah
🧠 Large Language Models
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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...

Dev.to · Devanshu Biswas
🧠 Large Language Models
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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...

Dev.to · Ron Northcutt
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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....

Dev.to · Devanshu Biswas
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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...

Dev.to · StickyTr33
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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...

Dev.to · Constant, Yuan Chen
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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...

Dev.to · danio
🧠 Large Language Models
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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...

Dev.to · OmarMashal
🧠 Large Language Models
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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...
Lenny's Newsletter
🧠 Large Language Models
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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

Dev.to · Bryan Clark
🧠 Large Language Models
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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...

Dev.to · plasma
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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...

Dev.to · tokencnn
🧠 Large Language Models
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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...

Dev.to · FatherSon
🧠 Large Language Models
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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...

Dev.to · JackChen
🧠 Large Language Models
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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

Dev.to · cchsh
🧠 Large Language Models
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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...

Dev.to · Maryam Fatima
🧠 Large Language Models
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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...

Dev.to · Zhouxia Qian
🧠 Large Language Models
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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

Dev.to · Zhouxia Qian
🧠 Large Language Models
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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.
Dev.to · Peremptory
🧠 Large Language Models
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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

Dev.to · ail akram
🧠 Large Language Models
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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...

Dev.to · Wahaj
🧠 Large Language Models
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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...

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...

Dev.to · Whatsonyourmind
🧠 Large Language Models
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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...

Dev.to · Marcus Chen
🧠 Large Language Models
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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...

Dev.to · Jehadur Rahman (Emran)
🧠 Large Language Models
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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...

Dev.to · M Hossein
🧠 Large Language Models
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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...

Dev.to · rarenode
🧠 Large Language Models
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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...

Dev.to · Muhammet ŞAFAK
🧠 Large Language Models
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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...

Dev.to · Sarkar
🧠 Large Language Models
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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...
Dev.to · lu1tr0n
🧠 Large Language Models
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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

Dev.to · SAIHM-Admin
🧠 Large Language Models
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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...

Dev.to · thestackunderflow
🧠 Large Language Models
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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...

Dev.to · Maria jose Gonzalez Antelo
🧠 Large Language Models
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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...
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