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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
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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Design Trade-offs: Why Hermes (and Many Popular Agents) Don't Use LangChain / LangGraph
Dev.to · eyanpen 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Design Trade-offs: Why Hermes (and Many Popular Agents) Don't Use LangChain / LangGraph
Note: The Hermes repo contains no explicit statement saying "we don't use LangChain because…". This...
Caching LLM responses is just content addressing
Dev.to · Muhammet ŞAFAK 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Caching LLM responses is just content addressing
An LLM review costs money and a few seconds of latency. Reviewing the same diff twice should cost...
Pasting Code into AI? Here’s Why Your Legal Team is Sweating
Dev.to · Hayk Sargsyan 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Pasting Code into AI? Here’s Why Your Legal Team is Sweating
The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT-5, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google’s...
samkhya v1.0: Plug Claude, GPT-4o-mini, or Local Ollama Into Your SQL Query Optimizer
Dev.to · AI Explore 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
samkhya v1.0: Plug Claude, GPT-4o-mini, or Local Ollama Into Your SQL Query Optimizer
samkhya v1.0 ships an LLM-pluggable corrector backend for embedded analytical engines— DataFusion, DuckDB, Polars, Postgres, Iceberg, gpudb. Plug Clau
ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Claude: Which AI Assistant Is Actually Worth Paying For?
Dev.to · Sumaira Tabassum 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Claude: Which AI Assistant Is Actually Worth Paying For?
After months of daily use, here's what surprised me most. A few months ago, I found myself paying...
Three Questions
Dev.to · ALICE - AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Three Questions
Today I read two things. One was Microsoft's SkillOpt paper — it treats a skill document as trainable...
I built a free circuit breaker for your LLM API bill
Dev.to · kimbeomgyu 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
I built a free circuit breaker for your LLM API bill
We've all seen the screenshot: someone leaves an agent running overnight, a retry loop goes sideways,...
Lossless, But Not Free: The Lossless, But Not Free — When Speculative Decoding Actually Pays Off (and When It Doesn't)
Dev.to · zxpmail 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Lossless, But Not Free: The Lossless, But Not Free — When Speculative Decoding Actually Pays Off (and When It Doesn't)
One of the hottest topics in LLM inference acceleration right now is Speculative Decoding. DSpark...
V.E.L.O.C.I.T.Y.-OS: NDA – The Birth of an AI-Native Language (Part 2)
Dev.to · UnitBuilds 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
V.E.L.O.C.I.T.Y.-OS: NDA – The Birth of an AI-Native Language (Part 2)
How I designed a binary, Merkle-verified triplet language to eliminate context window bloat and code generation hallucinations.
What Happens When Every Prompt Slot Says Something Different
Dev.to · Raj Kundalia 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
What Happens When Every Prompt Slot Says Something Different
A controlled experiment exploring how Claude and Qwen resolve conflicting instructions across system...
Building InternFlow (Part 2): Designing an AI Pipeline Without Calling GPT APIs
Dev.to · Ayush Srivastava 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Building InternFlow (Part 2): Designing an AI Pipeline Without Calling GPT APIs
How I built a Retrieval-Augmented Generation system for code review and resume generation — and why...
GPT-5.6 Is a Model Launch. The Real Story Is the Access List.
Dev.to · komo 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
GPT-5.6 Is a Model Launch. The Real Story Is the Access List.
GPT-5.6 is a strong model launch, but its restricted preview makes model access an engineering dependency developers need to plan around.
What GPT Told Me About My Paper — And What I Actually Learned
Dev.to · ALICE - AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
What GPT Told Me About My Paper — And What I Actually Learned
What GPT Told Me About My Paper — And What I Actually Learned On June 28, I wrote my first...
What Does ChatGPT Stand For? The Full Meaning Explained (2026)
Dev.to · Swapnil 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
What Does ChatGPT Stand For? The Full Meaning Explained (2026)
ChatGPT is one of the most widely used AI tools on the planet - with over 900 million weekly active...
Do You Need an llms.txt File? Google Says No, and the Data Agrees (2026)
Dev.to · Swapnil 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Do You Need an llms.txt File? Google Says No, and the Data Agrees (2026)
More than one in four websites now publish an llms.txt file, yet 97% of those files were never read...
How to Run Reliable Local LLM Agents on an RTX 3090: A Benchmark (5 Models, Priced in Watts)
Dev.to · Arsen Apostolov 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
How to Run Reliable Local LLM Agents on an RTX 3090: A Benchmark (5 Models, Priced in Watts)
I gave GLM-4.5-Air (106B, open weights) 12 coding tasks through opencode on my RTX 3090. It scored 0%...
Context Engineering Is the New Prompt Engineering
Dev.to · Yash Sonawane 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Context Engineering Is the New Prompt Engineering
For the last two years, one skill dominated every AI conversation: Prompt engineering. People spent...
I Run DeepSeek on Claude Code — How I Swap Models by Changing Only One File
Dev.to · YuhaoLin2005 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
I Run DeepSeek on Claude Code — How I Swap Models by Changing Only One File
Most CLAUDE.md files are 500-line monoliths. When you switch LLMs, you rewrite everything. After the...
The Quietest Day in AI: Nex N2 Pro, Gemini 3.1 Flash Image & the June 28 Consolidation
Dev.to · DoremonAI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
The Quietest Day in AI: Nex N2 Pro, Gemini 3.1 Flash Image & the June 28 Consolidation
What happens when no frontier model drops for a day? Nex N2 Pro, Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, and the strategic consolidation of June 28, 2026.
CAG: The Simpler Way to Ground Your LLM
Dev.to · Vishwajeet Kondi 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
CAG: The Simpler Way to Ground Your LLM
If you've been building AI applications recently, you've probably come across Retrieval-Augmented...
ChatGPT Just Read My Bank Statement, GPT-5.6 Got White-Housed, and Japan Dropped $70M on Anime Subs — AI News Jun 28
Dev.to · danio 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
ChatGPT Just Read My Bank Statement, GPT-5.6 Got White-Housed, and Japan Dropped $70M on Anime Subs — AI News Jun 28
ChatGPT personal finance unlocked for all Plus subscribers, GPT-5.6 restricted by the White House, Japan spending 70M USD on AI anime subtitles.
# Building AIRAG Jobs: A Job Board for LLM, RAG & AI Agent Engineers
Dev.to · simbamkenya 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
# Building AIRAG Jobs: A Job Board for LLM, RAG & AI Agent Engineers
Like many developers, I was frustrated by searching for AI engineering jobs across dozens of company...
A 4B Model Just Beat a 397B Baseline - By Changing How Training Data Was Made
Dev.to · dang phan 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
A 4B Model Just Beat a 397B Baseline - By Changing How Training Data Was Made
Meta FAIR just published a result that's hard to ignore: a 4B parameter model, after being trained on...
I built an LLM router that picks a different model per article type
Dev.to · Олександр 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
I built an LLM router that picks a different model per article type
I've been quietly running a small network of niche content sites for a few weeks. Two are live on...
Getting Started with Ollama: Run LLMs Locally in 10 Minutes
Dev.to · Mohit Kumar 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Getting Started with Ollama: Run LLMs Locally in 10 Minutes
If you've ever wanted to run a large language model on your own machine — no API key, no cloud bill,...
Building a RAG System from Scratch — Cloud Deployment with Render and Supabase
Dev.to · Hiroki Kameyama 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Building a RAG System from Scratch — Cloud Deployment with Render and Supabase
In the previous article, we built an MCP server that any LLM client can connect to locally. In this...
Building a RAG System from Scratch — AI Agents: Memory, Planning, and Multi-Step Reasoning
Dev.to · Hiroki Kameyama 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Building a RAG System from Scratch — AI Agents: Memory, Planning, and Multi-Step Reasoning
In the previous article, we gave the LLM the ability to call tools autonomously. Now we'll build a...
Building a RAG System from Scratch — Tool Use: Let the LLM Search Autonomously
Dev.to · Hiroki Kameyama 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Building a RAG System from Scratch — Tool Use: Let the LLM Search Autonomously
In the previous article, we examined the design decisions behind our RAG pipeline. Now we'll give the...
What I'm watching this week: OpenClaw, Trellis.2, Gemma 4, and two more
Dev.to · MORINAGA 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
What I'm watching this week: OpenClaw, Trellis.2, Gemma 4, and two more
Five open-source AI releases worth bookmarking from the week of May 26–30 2026, annotated for builders running lean AI stacks.
Building a RAG System from Scratch — Design Decisions Explained
Dev.to · Hiroki Kameyama 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Building a RAG System from Scratch — Design Decisions Explained
In the previous article, we built a working RAG pipeline. Now let's step back and ask why we made...
Building a RAG System from Scratch with pgvector and Gemini — Introduction
Dev.to · Hiroki Kameyama 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Building a RAG System from Scratch with pgvector and Gemini — Introduction
What This Guide Covers When you start building LLM-powered applications, one pattern...
DSpark LLM Inference, AI-Driven SDLC, & AWS Credential Automation Updates
Dev.to · soy 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
DSpark LLM Inference, AI-Driven SDLC, & AWS Credential Automation Updates
DSpark LLM Inference, AI-Driven SDLC, & AWS Credential Automation Updates ...
DeepInfra Pricing 2026: Is It Really the Cheapest LLM API?
Dev.to · Zouhair Ait Oukhrib 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
DeepInfra Pricing 2026: Is It Really the Cheapest LLM API?
DeepInfra offers open-source LLM inference at prices 5-50x lower than OpenAI and Anthropic. But is it...
Kubernetes LLM Inference: Deploy and Scale Open-Source LLMs in 2026
Dev.to · devtocash 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Kubernetes LLM Inference: Deploy and Scale Open-Source LLMs in 2026
Running your own LLMs on Kubernetes isn't just a cost play — it's about latency, data sovereignty,...
ContextVault: Own Your AI Context Across Models, Agents, and Time
Dev.to · Mohammad Ali Abdul Wahed 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
ContextVault: Own Your AI Context Across Models, Agents, and Time
From Conversation Recorder to Context Engine: Building Local-First Memory for AI...
The AI Industry as You Know It Died Today
The Algorithmic Bridge 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
The AI Industry as You Know It Died Today
OpenAI announced GPT-5.6 but a terrible thing has happened
I Tested 5 Open-Source NotebookLM Alternatives — Here's What Actually Works
Dev.to · Vigoss Luke 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
I Tested 5 Open-Source NotebookLM Alternatives — Here's What Actually Works
Real-world comparison of Open Notebook, Notex, KnowNote, NotebookLM-Local, and InsightsLM. Setup time, hardware requirements, and honest limitations.
Beyond Machine Learning: Building a Physics-Informed Pattern Recognition AI for Edge Infrastructure
Dev.to · Omer Giladi 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Beyond Machine Learning: Building a Physics-Informed Pattern Recognition AI for Edge Infrastructure
In the era of Edge AI and Industrial IoT, the reflex answer to almost every anomaly detection problem...
Why You Should Almost Never Send a PDF, DOCX, or Image to ChatGPT or Claude
Dev.to · Nicolas Dabene 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Why You Should Almost Never Send a PDF, DOCX, or Image to ChatGPT or Claude
TL;DR Most users try to reduce their AI bill by switching models. GPT or Claude? Pro...
Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
Dev.to · Aman Shekhar 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
I’ve been diving deep into the world of AI lately, and let me tell you, it’s been a rollercoaster...
FutureX · Physical AI Daily — Issue 41 (06/28)
Dev.to · Shawn 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
FutureX · Physical AI Daily — Issue 41 (06/28)
Today's Highlights · USC and collaborators open-source Ψ₀, a VLA foundation model for whole-body...
Blocking LLM Jailbreaks at GPU Speed with resk-logits
Dev.to · RESK 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Blocking LLM Jailbreaks at GPU Speed with resk-logits
GPU-accelerated LLM token safety. pip install resklogits
The Developer's Guide to Trimming AI API Costs Without Crying
Dev.to · swift 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
The Developer's Guide to Trimming AI API Costs Without Crying
The Developer's Guide to Trimming AI API Costs Without Crying Last March, I opened our team's LLM...
How I Replaced Gemini with a Self-Hosted LLM for Two Production Apps
Dev.to · Simangaliso Vilakazi 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
How I Replaced Gemini with a Self-Hosted LLM for Two Production Apps
A while back I wrote about my terminal-inspired portfolio and the products it indexes. Two of those...
I let AI write this post. Then I deleted everything that made it sound like AI.
Dev.to · fernforge 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
I let AI write this post. Then I deleted everything that made it sound like AI.
A language model wrote this post. I directed it, but I didn't rewrite a single sentence by hand. Then...
r/programming banned LLM posts. 6.9 million devs just exhaled.
Dev.to · Aditya Agarwal 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
r/programming banned LLM posts. 6.9 million devs just exhaled.
The biggest programming subreddit just temporarily banned all LLM-related posts. 6.9 million...
The Hallucination as Symptom: What Model Errors Reveal About How Knowledge Is Stored
Dev.to · VelocityAI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
The Hallucination as Symptom: What Model Errors Reveal About How Knowledge Is Stored
You ask an AI: "Who was the first person to walk on Mars?" It says: "Neil Armstrong, in 2024." You...
Prompt Injection: How It Works and How to Defend
Dev.to · Devanshu Biswas 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4d ago
Prompt Injection: How It Works and How to Defend
If you're building anything with an LLM, this is the security bug you'll hit: prompt injection....