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LLM Foundations

Explain how transformers generate text

Write zero-shot and few-shot prompts

LLM Engineering

Call LLM APIs with function/tool use

Fine-tuning LLMs

Prepare fine-tuning datasets

Multimodal LLMs

Use GPT-4V / Claude Vision for image understanding

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Self-Discover: let the model design its own reasoning plan

Dev.to · Devanshu Biswas 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

Self-Discover: let the model design its own reasoning plan

Most reasoning prompts do the same thing to every problem. Chain-of-thought staples "let's think step...

I Checked If ChatGPT Knew My Product Existed. The Answer Broke Something Loose.

Medium · SEO 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

I Checked If ChatGPT Knew My Product Existed. The Answer Broke Something Loose.

Rahul ran the test on a last night, mostly out of curiosity. He opened a private ChatGPT window and typed the exact question he figured a… Continue reading on M

I Checked If ChatGPT Knew My Product Existed. The Answer Broke Something Loose.

Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

I Checked If ChatGPT Knew My Product Existed. The Answer Broke Something Loose.

Rahul ran the test on a last night, mostly out of curiosity. He opened a private ChatGPT window and typed the exact question he figured a… Continue reading on M

Why Can a Model Learn Without Changing Its Original Weights?

Medium · Deep Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

Why Can a Model Learn Without Changing Its Original Weights?

An intuitive journey through LoRA, low-dimensional subspaces, and the mathematics behind parameter-efficient fine-tuning. Continue reading on Medium »

How I Cut My LLM Costs 40x by Switching Off OpenAI This Month

Dev.to · bolddeck 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

How I Cut My LLM Costs 40x by Switching Off OpenAI This Month

How I Cut My LLM Costs 40x by Switching Off OpenAI This Month Let me tell you a quick story. Last...

Your AI Forgets Everything. Here's How Cognee Fixes It.

Dev.to · Divyesh 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

Your AI Forgets Everything. Here's How Cognee Fixes It.

Have you ever noticed this? You explain your project to an AI chatbot, have a great conversation,...

How AI models claim that they are the BEST?

Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

How AI models claim that they are the BEST?

Every AI company says their model is the best. Continue reading on Medium »

3 LLM Backends, 1 RTX 3090: Who Wins the RAM-Spill Test?

Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

3 LLM Backends, 1 RTX 3090: Who Wins the RAM-Spill Test?

llama.cpp, Ollama, and vLLM benchmarked across 5 models (1B to 117B) on a single 24GB card — vLLM wins concurrency decisively, then fails… Continue reading on M

📦 AI Context Engineering (Part 2): Tokens, Context Windows & Memory - Why More Context Isn't Always Better

Dev.to · Fazal Mansuri 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

📦 AI Context Engineering (Part 2): Tokens, Context Windows & Memory - Why More Context Isn't Always Better

In Part 1, we learned that building great AI applications isn't just about writing better...

Tool-Calling SLMs in 2026: Why a Tiny Fine-Tuned Model Beat a 175B Baseline by 51 Points

Medium · Data Science 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

Tool-Calling SLMs in 2026: Why a Tiny Fine-Tuned Model Beat a 175B Baseline by 51 Points

A 350M-parameter model scored 77.55% on ToolBench and left a 175B baseline at 26%. Here is what that result really shows, and how to build… Continue reading on

AI’s Funniest, Most Insane Behaviors: They Did Exactly What You Asked. That’s the Problem.

Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

AI’s Funniest, Most Insane Behaviors: They Did Exactly What You Asked. That’s the Problem.

A boat caught fire, went the‍ wrong dir⁠ection,‌ smashed into other boats, circled a lagoon for the e‌ntire race and‍ scor‌e⁠d 20%… Continue reading on Data S

AI’s Funniest, Most Insane Behaviors: They Did Exactly What You Asked. That’s the Problem.

Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

AI’s Funniest, Most Insane Behaviors: They Did Exactly What You Asked. That’s the Problem.

A boat caught fire, went the‍ wrong dir⁠ection,‌ smashed into other boats, circled a lagoon for the e‌ntire race and‍ scor‌e⁠d 20%… Continue reading on Data S

vLLM vs llama.cpp vs Ollama: What Happens When Your Model Doesn't Fit in 24GB VRAM

Dev.to · Arsen Apostolov 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

vLLM vs llama.cpp vs Ollama: What Happens When Your Model Doesn't Fit in 24GB VRAM

TL;DR Benchmarked llama.cpp, Ollama, and vLLM across 5 models (1B to 116.8B params) on one...

Cutting the Hype: An Engineering Protocol for Tracking LLM Innovations

Dev.to · Next Big Creative 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

Cutting the Hype: An Engineering Protocol for Tracking LLM Innovations

Navigating the constant influx of AI news requires a systematic filter built for builders, not...

ChatGPT Mega Prompt For Deep Work Analysis

Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

ChatGPT Mega Prompt For Deep Work Analysis

Most people use ChatGPT like Google. Continue reading on Medium »

MedGemma Challenge Submission

Medium · Data Science 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

MedGemma Challenge Submission

LLM-Enabled Genomic Analysis Continue reading on Medium »

MedGemma Challenge Submission

Medium · Python 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

MedGemma Challenge Submission

LLM-Enabled Genomic Analysis Continue reading on Medium »

AI Fundamentals - Part 2: Why AI Gets Things Right... and Wrong

Dev.to · Vishwajeet Kondi 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

AI Fundamentals - Part 2: Why AI Gets Things Right... and Wrong

In Part 1, we learned how an LLM turns your prompt into a response. It all comes down to predicting...

Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

Semantic Caching for LLM Apps: Cut Token Spend 40-80%

Originally published on AI Tech Connect . What semantic caching actually is Most LLM applications answer the same questions over and over, phrased slightly diff

Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

Self-Host Open LLMs with vLLM: A Throughput and Latency Playbook

Originally published on AI Tech Connect . When self-hosting on vLLM beats an API Every team that ships a language-model feature eventually faces the same fork i

Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

GLM-5.2: 744B Open Weights Top the Intelligence Index

Originally published on AI Tech Connect . What builders need to know Open weights took the lead. Released on 13 June 2026, GLM-5.2 from Z.ai is now the top open

Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

100 AI Prompts Every Freelancer Should Bookmark

If you’ve used ChatGPT or Claude even once, you already know the frustrating part: getting a useful output depends entirely on how well… Continue reading on Med

Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

I Built an AI Feed, Then Spent Most of the Time Fighting Bad Input

I thought I was building an AI app. Turns out, I was building a garbage sorting machine with embeddings. PROJECT REPOSITORY <a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynam

Semantic Caching: How Stochastic Fixation Freezes LLM Reconstruction Errors

Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

Semantic Caching: How Stochastic Fixation Freezes LLM Reconstruction Errors

The application layer that turns one random sample into a thousand users’ reality Continue reading on Medium »

The 12-Factor Agents Methodology

Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

The 12-Factor Agents Methodology

Large language models are increasingly capable of handling complex, multi-step tasks. Advances in reasoning, multimodality, and tool use… Continue reading on Me

Building The Case File: Giving an AI Investigator a Memory That Never Forgets

Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

Building The Case File: Giving an AI Investigator a Memory That Never Forgets

How we built an AI investigator that remembers previous case files, detects contradictions across investigations, and continuously learns… Continue reading on M

How Forcing 1024-Dim Embeddings Cut Our Pinecone Bill by ~33%

Dev.to · Atul Tripathi 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

How Forcing 1024-Dim Embeddings Cut Our Pinecone Bill by ~33%

If you've built a RAG pipeline before, you know the pattern: hook up an embedding model, dump vectors...

You don’t need thinking levels in Claude Code. You need Planning and Goal modes.

Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

You don’t need thinking levels in Claude Code. You need Planning and Goal modes.

Why Claude Code’s most-hyped setting matters less than the discipline you apply before you prompt Continue reading on Data Science Collective »

You don’t need thinking levels in Claude Code. You need Planning and Goal modes.

Medium · Data Science 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

You don’t need thinking levels in Claude Code. You need Planning and Goal modes.

Why Claude Code’s most-hyped setting matters less than the discipline you apply before you prompt Continue reading on Data Science Collective »

You don’t need thinking levels in Claude Code. You need Planning and Goal modes.

Medium · Deep Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

You don’t need thinking levels in Claude Code. You need Planning and Goal modes.

Why Claude Code’s most-hyped setting matters less than the discipline you apply before you prompt Continue reading on Data Science Collective »

Why I Stopped Using ChatGPT for Everything

Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

Why I Stopped Using ChatGPT for Everything

When I first discovered OpenAI’s ChatGPT, it felt like someone had handed me a superpower. Continue reading on Artificial Intelligence in Plain English »

Quick Bytes — LLM Structured Output

Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

Quick Bytes — LLM Structured Output

Ever thought about how large language models generate structured output? Continue reading on Medium »

Quick Bytes — LLM Structured Output

Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

Quick Bytes — LLM Structured Output

Ever thought about how large language models generate structured output? Continue reading on Daily diaries »

Transformer Architecture Explained: The Foundation of Modern Large Language Model

Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

Transformer Architecture Explained: The Foundation of Modern Large Language Model

If you’ve used ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any modern AI writing assistant, you’ve interacted with a Transformer. Every major large… Continue reading on Medium

Transformer Architecture Explained: The Foundation of Modern Large Language Model

Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

Transformer Architecture Explained: The Foundation of Modern Large Language Model

If you’ve used ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any modern AI writing assistant, you’ve interacted with a Transformer. Every major large… Continue reading on Medium

I built an AI speechwriter for the moments you can't get wrong

Dev.to · KunStudio 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

I built an AI speechwriter for the moments you can't get wrong

A best man's toast. A eulogy for a parent. An obituary you have three days to write while grieving....

Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

I Built Git for AI Conversations in 7 Days — Here’s Everything That Went Wrong and Right

When you use Git, you take branching for granted. You make a decision, commit it, and if it turns out to be wrong — you revert. Continue reading on Medium »

Breaking Into AI: Your Practical Roadmap for 2024

Dev.to · HIH_AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

Breaking Into AI: Your Practical Roadmap for 2024

The AI job market in Korea is exploding. From Samsung to Naver, companies are scrambling to hire AI...

Building an Autonomous Budget Gate: Optimizing LLM Costs with Speculative Runtime Execution

Dev.to · bencysandra2006 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

Building an Autonomous Budget Gate: Optimizing LLM Costs with Speculative Runtime Execution

In production environments, deploying LLM agents without financial guardrails is a recipe for...

I Built an AI Workflow Where One Word Document Can Write Another

Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

I Built an AI Workflow Where One Word Document Can Write Another

Most AI writing tools treat every document as an isolated file. Continue reading on Medium »

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Pebira: AI Culture Is the Missing Layer in the LLM Stack

How large language models are reshaping not just systems—but the culture built around them Artificial Intelligence is usually discussed as a technical system. W

Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

Pebira: Documenting the Culture Emerging From Artificial Intelligence

How LLMs are not only transforming technology, but quietly reshaping human culture, identity, and meaning Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

Pebira: Documenting the Culture Emerging From Artificial Intelligence

How LLMs are not only transforming technology, but quietly reshaping human culture, identity, and meaning Continue reading on Medium »

AI Workers Should Write Data, Not Code: The 71% Token Reduction Pattern No One Documented Yet

Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

AI Workers Should Write Data, Not Code: The 71% Token Reduction Pattern No One Documented Yet

TL;DR: Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Python 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

The Practical LlamaIndex Trial Is a Context Contract, Not a Demo

LlamaIndex should not be judged by whether a five-line RAG demo returns a fluent answer. That only proves that one happy path can run. It… Continue reading on M

Medium · RAG 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

The Practical LlamaIndex Trial Is a Context Contract, Not a Demo

LlamaIndex should not be judged by whether a five-line RAG demo returns a fluent answer. That only proves that one happy path can run. It… Continue reading on M

Checking whether ChatGPT actually recommends your product

Dev.to · Cooki 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

Checking whether ChatGPT actually recommends your product

Ask ChatGPT or Perplexity "what's the best note-taking app" and you get a shortlist of three to five...

llms.txt in 2026: how to write one that actually scores

Dev.to · Egor 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago

llms.txt in 2026: how to write one that actually scores

Every scanner in the AI-readiness space checks for llms.txt. Half the sites that fail the check fail...