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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 · Jignesh Maheshwari
🧠 Large Language Models
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1d ago
LLMs didn't kill feature engineering. Engineers did.
Somewhere around when LLMs started eating every roadmap, a quiet belief took over a lot of teams. If...

Dev.to · HelperX
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1d ago
Feeding the LLM the Whole Thread: Prompt Chaining for Contextual Replies
I wrote earlier about our persona engine — how we make one LLM sound like many different people. But...

Dev.to · Trevor
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1d ago
Redaction is Not Enough: When an LLM can still Infer the PII You Stripped Out
A reader left a sharp question on my last post about redacting PII before sending prompts to an LLM....

Dev.to · Trevor
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1d ago
Redaction is Not Enough: When an LLM can still Infer the PII You Stripped Out
A reader left a sharp question on my last post about redacting PII before sending prompts to an LLM....

Dev.to · Jakub
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1d ago
Why Press-Release Citations Decay in AI Grounding (and What We Measure Instead)
We run a portfolio of products at Inithouse. One of them, Be Recommended, tracks how AI engines cite...

Dev.to · Ryan Brinn
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1d ago
Maybe Chain-of-Thought Isn't the Trick. Maybe Specification Is.
I want to think through something out loud, and I'd genuinely love to know if this lands for anyone...

Dev.to · Ross Peili
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1d ago
How LLMs Now Monitor and Cut Their Own Token Spend
You have seen this loop before. An agent starts a “simple” task, say scrape listings, refactor a...

Dev.to · Pavel Espitia
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1d ago
RAG for Code: Why Chunking by Function Beats Chunking by Lines
I built a retrieval system over a codebase so an LLM could answer questions about it, and my first...

Dev.to · Paige Bailey
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1d ago
The Future Of AI Is Local And Open
There’s a specific moment that happens at every single hackathon. It’s usually around 2 or 3 a.m.,...

Dev.to · purecast
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1d ago
I Ran My Freelance Work Through 4 Chinese LLMs — Here's the Damage
I Ran My Freelance Work Through 4 Chinese LLMs — Here's the Damage Last month I made a decision that...

Dev.to · Webmaster Ramos
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1d ago
Frontier LLMs Get 2 of 3 Tax Returns Wrong - Stop Letting Them Decide
Everyone is wiring LLMs into checkout flows right now. I want to make the unpopular case that for the...

Dev.to · Simple Memo
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1d ago
The prompt is the cheap part. The context is the product.
Suppose the model forgot you completely between every message. No memory, no history, no idea who you...

Dev.to · Kantemir Satibalov
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1d ago
I stopped trusting generic LLMs for horticulture — so I built a grounded assistant on ~500 scientific articles
Last year I kept seeing the same pattern in agtech and “AI assistant” demos: a chatbot wrapped around...

Dev.to · Nguyen Thien
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1d ago
We built Nebula: GraphRAG that runs in your browser tab, not someone else's cloud
Most AI note apps ship your notes to a cloud vector database and a hosted model, then ask you to...

Dev.to · Aditya Agarwal
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1d ago
100k lines of TypeScript to Rust via LLM is not a port. It's a mess with a demo.
A person boasted that they converted 100k lines of TypeScript to Rust in a month with the help of an...

Dev.to · BangBoo01
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1d ago
The one-page "memory doc" that makes any AI remember you
Every time I open a new chat with ChatGPT, it forgets I exist. Not in a dramatic way. It's polite....

Dev.to · DoremonAI
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1d ago
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra & GLM-5.2: The Open Model Flood Is Here (June 2026)
Two major open-weight models just dropped: NVIDIA's 550B Nemotron 3 Ultra and Z.AI's MIT-licensed GLM-5.2. Plus Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash gains computer use. He

Dev.to · Dufrence
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1d ago
What is LangChain? Building an AI Agent in 10 Lines of Code
What is LangChain? It's the glue that connects large language models with tools — you write a few...

Dev.to · İsmail Hakkı Eren
🧠 Large Language Models
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1d ago
Beyaz Saray'dan OpenAI Kararı: GPT-5.6 Hükümet Denetimiyle Sunulacak
Yapay Zeka Dünyasında Yeni Dönem: Federal Denetim ve Güvenlik Odaklı Dağıtım Yapay zeka...

Dev.to · Cx330
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1d ago
How to Learn Prompt Engineering — From Crafting One AI to Leading an AI Team
How to learn Prompt Engineering? Five core techniques — be clear and specific, assign a role,...

Dev.to · VelocityAI
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1d ago
The Data That Built the Brain: What Actually Went Into Training GPT-4 (and What Was Left Out)
You ask an AI a question. It answers. It sounds smart. It sounds like it has read everything. It has....

Dev.to · Andy Tan
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1d ago
Amazon Bedrock Deployment Guide: From Environment Setup to Production Operations
Amazon Bedrock, AWS's fully managed service for foundation models, makes it much easier to build and...

Dev.to · correctover
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1d ago
That 200 OK From Your LLM Gateway Probably Means Nothing
Every AI gateway on the market — LiteLLM, Portkey, OpenRouter, Olla — checks the same things: HTTP...

Dev.to · Abdul Rehman
🧠 Large Language Models
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1d ago
I Built an AI Pipeline for 10,000 Daily Listings. Here's What Broke at Scale.
Lessons from running an LLM scoring pipeline in production: cost management, function calling architecture, and error handling.

Dev.to · Renato Marinho
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1d ago
Stop browsing Hugging Face like it's 2015
Stop manual browsing and use the Hugging Face MCP to audit models, datasets, and spaces directly from your AI agent.

Dev.to · RESK
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1d ago
Bitmask-Based LLM Security Firewall with reskSecure — Block Jailbreaks at Token Level
Block LLM jailbreaks and prompt injections at the token level with reskSecure — a bitmask-based security firewall for AI applications. Includes code example and

Dev.to · Umair Bilal
🧠 Large Language Models
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1d ago
prima.cpp local llm benchmark: 15% Faster Than llama.cpp
See a direct prima.cpp local llm benchmark against llama.cpp on RTX 4090 and M2 Max. I found prima.cpp 15%+ faster for 70B models.

Dev.to · Vignan Nallani
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1d ago
I gave an AI a memory of my interview history — here's what I learned building on Cognee
I gave an AI a memory of my interview history — here's what I learned building on Cognee Every time...

Dev.to · Rahul Agarwal
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1d ago
Stop Building OpenAI Wrappers: How to Build Defensible AI Apps
Let's be honest: 90% of the "AI Startups" launched last year were just thin UI wrappers over an LLM...

Dev.to · kapil Maheshwari
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1d ago
Graceful Degradation Strategies for LLM Rate Limits
Explore strategies for graceful degradation when your LLM provider rate-limits or goes down, ensuring reliability and cost efficiency.

Dev.to · Emmanuel Ekunsumi
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1d ago
GLM 5.2 Has a 1M Token Context Window. Here's What That Does to Your API Bill.
Z.ai dropped GLM 5.2 on June 13, 2026, and the benchmarks are hard to ignore. It's a 744B-parameter...

Dev.to · Alper GÖÇEN
🧠 Large Language Models
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2d ago
Free from-scratch deep learning notes: tensors, attention, and a tiny GPT
I'm an AI PhD student, and I have started writing a free public notebook on how AI models work under...

Dev.to · Jonah T
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2d ago
Context Warp Drive: deterministic folding for long-running LLM agents
Context Warp Drive is an open-source TypeScript library for keeping long-running LLM agents under the...

Dev.to · Satyam Rastogi
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2d ago
GPT-5.6 Sol: Red Team Implications of OpenAI's Token-Efficient Cybersecurity AI
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol achieves competitive security AI performance with one-third token consumption. Red teams analyze offensive implications: restrict
Simon Willison's Blog
🧠 Large Language Models
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2d ago
Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding
Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding This is an interesting new open weights (MIT licensed) model, the first model release from DeepReinforce. [

Dev.to · VelocityAI
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2d ago
The Temperature Paradox: Why Slightly Chaotic Models Often Outperform Perfectly Deterministic Ones
You set the temperature to zero. The AI becomes a robot. It gives the same answer every time. It is...

Dev.to · Babar Hayat
🧠 Large Language Models
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2d ago
OpenAI Assistants Monitoring: Track Every Run, Cost, and Failure in Real Time
OpenAI Assistants API is the easiest way to deploy persistent GPT-4 agents. The monitoring gap is...

Dev.to · marcosomma
🧠 Large Language Models
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2d ago
The Model Does Not Need Memory. The Situation Does.
I think I was asking the wrong question. For a while, the question was simple: does memory make...

Dev.to · Emmanuel Ekunsumi
🧠 Large Language Models
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2d ago
How I Cut LLM API Costs by 60% With 2 Lines of Code
Our OpenAI bill tripled in 60 days. User growth was up 40%. Revenue was up. But the API bill was...

Dev.to · Shruti Saraswat
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2d ago
GPT-5.6 changed the AI integration boundary, not just the model menu
OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 preview gives developers more than a stronger model. It changes how SaaS teams should think about routing, fallback, safety checks, caching, an

Dev.to · Abdul Rehman
🧠 Large Language Models
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2d ago
The Silent Cost of AI Agents: Why Your Next.js SaaS Is Burning Money on LLM Calls
How naive LLM integration drains your SaaS budget and how to fix it with caching, batching, and model routing.

Dev.to · Umair Bilal
🧠 Large Language Models
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2d ago
LLM Data Leaks: secure LLM sensitive data exclusion with a Firewall
Prevent accidental sensitive data leaks to LLMs. Learn how I built an LLM input firewall in Node.js for secure LLM sensitive data exclusion, inspired by Open...

Dev.to · Vigoss Luke
🧠 Large Language Models
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2d ago
Why I Replaced NotebookLM with a Self-Hosted Alternative (After 2 Weeks of Daily Use)
Why I Replaced NotebookLM with a Self-Hosted Alternative (After 2 Weeks of Daily Use) I've...

Dev.to · Daniel Nwaneri
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2d ago
What Actually Happens When You Call an LLM API
you've felt it. you type a prompt, hit send, and the response starts streaming in under a second....

Dev.to · Cecilia Hill
🧠 Large Language Models
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2d ago
LangChain Search Tool: Building an AI Agent with Live SERP Data
Build a LangChain agent that can search live SERP data, clean the results, and answer with fresher context instead of relying only on model memory.

Dev.to · DoremonAI
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2d ago
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Trio (Sol, Terra, Luna) Lands — and HP Just Bet the Company on Frontier (June 29, 2026)
OpenAI drops GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna while HP signs a massive Frontier partnership — June 29's double story redefines enterprise AI.

Dev.to · Max Quimby
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2d ago
GPT-5.6 Sol Ships Gated — the Gate Is the Story
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol launched to 20 government-approved partners with a custom Broadcom chip. The precedent is bigger than the model.

Dev.to · duke
🧠 Large Language Models
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2d ago
Running a Whole RAG Agent Offline: LangGraph + Ollama + Embedded Qdrant (Zero API Keys)
Most RAG tutorials open with "set your OPENAI_API_KEY." This one doesn't need it. In Part 1 I claimed...
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