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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
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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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AI Friends Just Got a Whole Lot More Real
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
AI Friends Just Got a Whole Lot More Real
What is currently happening in the world of AI companions. Continue reading on ILLUMINATION »
Taste Is the New Bottleneck: What a Year of Creating With AI Taught Me
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
Taste Is the New Bottleneck: What a Year of Creating With AI Taught Me
The tools got shockingly good. The hard part just moved somewhere I didn’t expect. Continue reading on Medium »
I Built a Financial Document Chatbot for Free Using Groq LLaMA 3.1 and LangChain — Here’s How
Medium · Programming 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
I Built a Financial Document Chatbot for Free Using Groq LLaMA 3.1 and LangChain — Here’s How
How I went from not knowing what RAG was to deploying a production-ready AI app in one weekend Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
Integrate CometAPI with Promptfoo: All You Need to Kow
Promptfoo is an open-source CLI tool for testing, evaluating, and red-teaming LLM prompts, models, and applications. Pairing it with CometAPI —a unified OpenAI-
The Practical Skills Behind AI Agents That Most People Skip
Medium · Programming 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
The Practical Skills Behind AI Agents That Most People Skip
Before jumping into AI agent frameworks, understand the Python, API, data, LLM, tool-calling, and debugging skills that make AI agents… Continue reading on Medi
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
The Biggest Misconception About ChatGPT
Millions of people use ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini, and other AI tools every day. Students use them for assignments. Developers use them to write code. But he
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
Building an AI Side Project That Actually Ships — Lessons from Shipping 3 MVPs
I’ll never forget the moment I realized my first AI side project was dead on arrival. I’d spent three weekends building a chatbot that used a locally hosted LLa
What Happens When AI Starts Thinking for You
Medium · Programming 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
What Happens When AI Starts Thinking for You
How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning, Creativity, and Ownership of Thought Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
JTOKEN - Lossless JSON compression for LLM prompts
Same data, ~35% fewer tokens. Purpose-built for RAG pipelines, AI agents, and structured prompt engineering. Hey Folks 👋 I'm Hermann Samimi, a data engineer wh
5 ChatGPT Prompts That Save Me Hours Every Week
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
5 ChatGPT Prompts That Save Me Hours Every Week
One of the biggest misconceptions about ChatGPT is that it is simply a tool for writing essays. That is like saying a smartphone is only… Continue reading on Me
10 AI Prompts That Save Me Hours Every Week
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
10 AI Prompts That Save Me Hours Every Week
Artificial Intelligence has become one of the most valuable tools in my daily workflow. Whether I am writing articles, researching ideas… Continue reading on Me
Towards Data Science 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
Increase Recommendation Systems’ Precision with LLMs, Using Python
This is how LLMs are used today to increase precision in recommendation systems The post Increase Recommendation Systems’ Precision with LLMs, Using Python appe
Fine-Tuning LLMs: When to Do It and When Not To
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
Fine-Tuning LLMs: When to Do It and When Not To
When LLM fine-tuning beats prompting and RAG and when to skip it Continue reading on Data Science Collective »
The RAG Memory Problem: Why TurboVec Might Be More Important Than Another Bigger LLM
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
The RAG Memory Problem: Why TurboVec Might Be More Important Than Another Bigger LLM
The Rust-powered vector index that skips the “study your data first” phase Continue reading on Medium »
The RAG Memory Problem: Why TurboVec Might Be More Important Than Another Bigger LLM
Medium · Programming 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
The RAG Memory Problem: Why TurboVec Might Be More Important Than Another Bigger LLM
The Rust-powered vector index that skips the “study your data first” phase Continue reading on Medium »
7 Open-Source AI Tools That You Need In 2026
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
7 Open-Source AI Tools That You Need In 2026
Here is how to build deterministic guardrails, run small language models locally, and bring architectural sanity back to your software… Continue reading on Arti
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
How to Build Production-Ready Generative AI Development Services for Enterprise Applications
Most teams don't struggle with getting a language model to generate text. They struggle when that same model needs to work reliably inside a production system.
5 ChatGPT Prompts That Make AI Writing Feel Surprisingly Human
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
5 ChatGPT Prompts That Make AI Writing Feel Surprisingly Human
Most AI writing fails because it sounds too polished, too flat, and too perfect. These prompts help bring back rhythm, emotion, and a real… Continue reading on
3 Ways AI Is Replacing Manual QA Tasks | TestoMeter
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
3 Ways AI Is Replacing Manual QA Tasks | TestoMeter
Software testing is evolving faster than ever. With the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs), many… Continue reading on Medium
I Gave Qwen3.7-Plus a Screenshot and It Found the Exact Pixel to Click for $0.40
Towards AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
I Gave Qwen3.7-Plus a Screenshot and It Found the Exact Pixel to Click for $0.40
Author(s): Chew Loong Nian – AI ENGINEER Originally published on Towards AI. I Gave Qwen3.7-Plus a Screenshot and It Found the Exact Pixel to Click for $0.40 I
Moonshot Cracked Claude Code’s Playbook with an MIT Terminal Agent and a $0.60 Model
Towards AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
Moonshot Cracked Claude Code’s Playbook with an MIT Terminal Agent and a $0.60 Model
Author(s): Chew Loong Nian – AI ENGINEER Originally published on Towards AI. Why this matters right now A Chinese lab just shipped a terminal coding agent that
Google Shrank Gemma 4 by 72% and Unsloth Fixed the 4-Bit Bug Nobody Else Caught on One 4090, and 4-Bit Shouldn’t Be This Good
Towards AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
Google Shrank Gemma 4 by 72% and Unsloth Fixed the 4-Bit Bug Nobody Else Caught on One 4090, and 4-Bit Shouldn’t Be This Good
Author(s): Chew Loong Nian – AI ENGINEER Originally published on Towards AI. Google Shrank Gemma 4 by 72% and Unsloth Fixed the 4-Bit Bug Nobody Else Caught on
LangChain Explained: Understanding Models, Prompts, Chains, Memory, Indexes, and Agents
Towards AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
LangChain Explained: Understanding Models, Prompts, Chains, Memory, Indexes, and Agents
Author(s): Atul Kumar Originally published on Towards AI. LangChain Explained: Understanding Models, Prompts, Chains, Memory, Indexes, and Agents Large Language
TOON: Beyond JSON for LLMs
Towards AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
TOON: Beyond JSON for LLMs
Author(s): Sourav Ghosh Originally published on Towards AI. Is JSON Finally Getting a Token-Efficient Alternative for LLMs? For years, JSON has been the default
Turn Your Boring PDFs into an AI Podcast Instantly Using Google NotebookLM
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
Turn Your Boring PDFs into an AI Podcast Instantly Using Google NotebookLM
Forget reading long documents. Let two AI hosts discuss your files while you sit back and listen Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
RAG - Prompt Engineering
Prompt engineering is the process of designing and structuring prompts to get better results from an LLM. In a RAG application, a prompt template typically cont
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How I Cut My LLM API Costs by 70% Without Touching My Code
I was staring at my monthly OpenAI bill, and it felt like a punch to the gut. $218.47. For a side project. A side project that barely had users. My first though
Claude vs ChatGPT in 2026: An Honest Comparison (With Real Use Cases by Profession)
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Claude vs ChatGPT in 2026: An Honest Comparison (With Real Use Cases by Profession)
I use both every day. Here’s what I actually found — no sponsored opinion, no hype. Continue reading on Medium »
NVIDIA Just Put a 120-Billion-Parameter AI Model in Your Laptop. Here’s What That Actually Changes.
Medium · Programming 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
NVIDIA Just Put a 120-Billion-Parameter AI Model in Your Laptop. Here’s What That Actually Changes.
AI Story of the week :RTX Spark: What a 120B Local Model, 128GB Unified Memory, and 1 Petaflop Actually Mean for How You Build AI? Continue reading on Predict »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How to Use Mistral for Answer-First Content Writing in 2026
Originally published at https://seointent.com/blog/mistral-for-answer-first-content-writing TL;DR - Mistral for answer-first content writing delivers direct ans
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Spring AI Tool Calling Explained | How to Give Your LLM Real Superpowers
Ask ChatGPT what Apple’s stock price is right now. It’ll either tell you it doesn’t have real-time data or confidently give you a number that’s months old. That
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
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The user wants me to rewrite an article about China AI Models vs US AI Models as a completely new piece by a devrel. Let me carefully follow all the rules: DO N
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Why Methodology, Not Code, is the Real Anchor of AI Innovation
The Case of Multimodal Architecture and the Yemek AI Blueprint Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
AI Is Quietly Learning to Read Us: The Dawn of the Individual Era
As AI goes deeper, humanity turns inward. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
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The user wants me to rewrite an article about Chinese vs US AI models as a bootcamp grad's personal experience. Let me carefully follow all the rules: Don't cop
The Real Value of AI Isn't Speed. It's Ten Years of Instinct in a Few Months.
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
The Real Value of AI Isn't Speed. It's Ten Years of Instinct in a Few Months.
The more small tools I built with AI, the thing that changed most wasn't how fast I worked. The knowledge and instinct that normally take… Continue reading on M
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
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The user wants me to rewrite an article about multimodal AI API comparison as a devrel piece. Let me carefully follow all the rules: Don't copy any sentences -
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Designing an AI Answering Service for Small Business: Routing, Escalation, and Latency Lessons
Small businesses do not usually need a futuristic phone agent. They need something more boring and more valuable: every call answered, every useful detail captu
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
LangChain Already Has a Cache. Here's Why I Replaced It.
LangChain's built-in cache is real and it works: python from langchain.globals import set_llm_cache from langchain.cache import InMemoryCache set_llm_cache(InMe
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I Fuzzed 12 LLMs With 19 Payloads — Here What Broke
I Fuzzed 12 LLMs With 19 Payloads — Here's What Broke Everyone's shipping AI agents. Nobody's testing them. I ran EXORR's prompt fuzzer — 19 payloads across 5 a
Wire the LLM Plumbing Once. Every Agent Session Inherits It.
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Wire the LLM Plumbing Once. Every Agent Session Inherits It.
Every agent session building software that calls an LLM starts by re-laying the same plumbing before any real work can begin: config… Continue reading on Genera
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Why AI Assistants Have an Amnesia Problem. And How We're Fixing It
A deep dive into HGVM: the memory architecture that makes AI agents remember like humans, forget like humans, and learn like humans. There is a moment every fre
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Request for help: qwen2.5vl:32b fails to load CLIP model aft Fix 2026
This article was originally published on runaihome.com qwen2.5vl:32b Fails to Load CLIP Model After Previously Working This error occurs when Ollama's cached mo
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Claude Skills & Hooks in Production: Trust Framework for CTOs
Production trust for community Claude extensions requires governance, not just curiosity. Teams treating Skills and hooks like prompt snippets are already think
“Why Are People Telling AI Things They Would Never Tell Another Human?”
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
“Why Are People Telling AI Things They Would Never Tell Another Human?”
Why millions of people are opening up to AI chatbots in ways they never could with another human and what it quietly reveals about the… Continue reading on ILLU
Beyond the Next Word: The Multi-Token Prediction Revolution in AI
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Beyond the Next Word: The Multi-Token Prediction Revolution in AI
For years, the foundational mechanic of Large Language Models (LLMs) has been remarkably simple, yet computationally expensive: Next-Token… Continue reading on
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
ChatGPT Assists Me, It Does Not Do My Work
It works well as a source for tutorials, which is helpful because with a lot of new stuff and things changing- I am clueless with some… Continue reading on Medi
LLM-as-a-Judge: The Reliability Pattern Behind Production GenAI Systems
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
LLM-as-a-Judge: The Reliability Pattern Behind Production GenAI Systems
TLDR; LLM-as-a-Judge is one of the most important architectural patterns in modern Generative AI systems. Whether you’re building RAG… Continue reading on Mediu