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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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6 Ways You’re Prompting Claude Fable 5 Wrong
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
6 Ways You’re Prompting Claude Fable 5 Wrong
You upgraded to the smartest model and your best prompts stopped landing. Six habits that fix it. Continue reading on Data Science Collective »
6 Ways You’re Prompting Claude Fable 5 Wrong
Medium · Data Science 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
6 Ways You’re Prompting Claude Fable 5 Wrong
You upgraded to the smartest model and your best prompts stopped landing. Six habits that fix it. Continue reading on Data Science Collective »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Beyond Context
The models are getting better. As you may have seen on multiple graphs presented here at the World's Fair, that 50% success-rate task duration horizon is growin
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Stop Treating LLM Memory as a Database: The Shift Toward Memory as a Skill
Stop Treating LLM Memory as a Database: The Shift Toward Memory as a Skill For the last two years, the industry has been obsessed with RAG. We've spent countles
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Generative AI Business for Agentic AI Firms
💡 Key Highlights Agentic AI Firms : Embracing Generative AI Business for Enhanced Decision-Making and Scalability. Generative AI Business : Leveraging Large La
Top AI Papers on Hugging Face - 2026-07-02
Dev.to · Y Hành Nhan 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Top AI Papers on Hugging Face - 2026-07-02
10 paper AI nổi bật nhất trên Hugging Face hôm nay: xu hướng mới từ agent memory, 3D...
How I'm Building MCP Servers for a Language Claude Doesn't Know Well
Dev.to · Gabriel Mahia 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How I'm Building MCP Servers for a Language Claude Doesn't Know Well
How I'm Building MCP Servers for a Language Claude Doesn't Know Well Swahili has roughly...
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Qwen 3.6 27B: How a 27B Dense Model Beats a 397B Giant — The Engineer's Complete Local AI Deployment Guide
Published: June 30, 2026 · 15 min read · Focus keyword: Qwen 3.6 27B local deployment <img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=sc
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Tested Four Chinese LLMs So You Don't Have To — Here's What I Found
I Tested Four Chinese LLMs So You Don't Have To — Here's What I Found Look, I'll be honest with you — I almost didn't write this piece. The Western AI giants ha
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI Training with Hands-On Projects to Build Job-Ready Skills!
🚀 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗔𝗜 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴! 🎯 Build job-ready #AI skills with #Visualpath through hands-on tra
🤖 How We Use LLMs to Deliver Personalized Language Feedback at Mocko.ai
Dev.to · Jaackop 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
🤖 How We Use LLMs to Deliver Personalized Language Feedback at Mocko.ai
Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed what's possible in education. Instead of simply...
AI-Powered Language Learning Platform: Lessons We Learned
Dev.to · Jaackop 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI-Powered Language Learning Platform: Lessons We Learned
Building an AI-Powered Language Learning Platform: Lessons We Learned When we started...
FastAPI + LLM: Build a Production-Ready AI API in 30 Minutes
Dev.to · Etrit Neziri 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
FastAPI + LLM: Build a Production-Ready AI API in 30 Minutes
FastAPI + LLM: Build a Production-Ready AI API in 30 Minutes Need to serve an LLM through...
Your LLM didn't get worse. It changed — and nobody told you.
Dev.to · Tatiana Radchenko 🇩🇰 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Your LLM didn't get worse. It changed — and nobody told you.
It's 2am. Your JSON parse errors are up 12%. Latency: normal. Uptime: 100%. Your prompt didn't...
Cómo hacer que un LLM diminuto funcione bien: seis palancas medidas en mi portátil (sin GPU)
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Cómo hacer que un LLM diminuto funcione bien: seis palancas medidas en mi portátil (sin GPU)
Todo el mundo repite lo mismo: para que un modelo de lenguaje funcione, necesitas escala. Más parámetros, más datos, más GPUs. Y es verdad… Continue reading on
I stuffed my whole repo into a million-token context window The model went blind in the middle, and…
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I stuffed my whole repo into a million-token context window The model went blind in the middle, and…
Last week I did the thing the marketing told me I could finally do. Continue reading on Medium »
I Cut My LLM Bill 40x: A Backend Engineer's Migration Notes
Dev.to · gentleforge 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Cut My LLM Bill 40x: A Backend Engineer's Migration Notes
Honestly, i Cut My LLM Bill 40x: A Backend Engineer's Migration Notes Last month I opened my OpenAI...
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Routing Across Multiple LLM Providers: How an AI Gateway Works
Every team that runs LLMs in production eventually hits the same wall. The provider goes down, throttles you, slows to a crawl, or raises… Continue reading on M
Building a Vector Search Assistant: What I Learned from Module 2
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Building a Vector Search Assistant: What I Learned from Module 2
When I first started learning about Retrieval-Augmented Generation, search felt like the simple part. You ask a question, look up the… Continue reading on Mediu
External Self-Care for LLMs: When the Model Keeps Answering Overloaded
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
External Self-Care for LLMs: When the Model Keeps Answering Overloaded
Large prompts create measurable Mental Load — the model can’t tell. Why external Self-Care is a structural obligation. Continue reading on Medium »
The LLM Gateway & Router Index (2026)
Dev.to · Srijan Paudel 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The LLM Gateway & Router Index (2026)
A gateway sits between your app and the model providers: one API, key management, caching, failover,...
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Gating Crisis - Choosing the right expert
Day 2: The Gating Crisis — Can You Act as a Sparse MoE Router Without Dropping Tokens? 🧠⚡ Mixture of Experts (MoE) models (like Mixtral 8x7B, DeepSeek-V3, and
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The reliability stack for LLM agents: tools and methods
A request can fail at three moments: before you send it, while it runs, or after it returns. Different tools and habits cover different moments. This is a direc
MCP didn't give AI memory. It gave AI access to memory.
Dev.to · Dimple 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
MCP didn't give AI memory. It gave AI access to memory.
MCP is basically turning AI from ** 🧠 "Who are you again?" New chat. New conversation. Everything...
LLM API Latency & Speed Comparison 2026 — Which Provider Is Fastest?
Dev.to · TokenPAPA 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
LLM API Latency & Speed Comparison 2026 — Which Provider Is Fastest?
Real-world LLM API latency comparison: DeepSeek vs GPT-5 vs Claude vs Gemini. Time-to-first-token, tokens per second, and geographic latency benchmark
The Illusion of Knowing:
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Illusion of Knowing:
When AI Explains More Than It Knows Continue reading on Medium »
Codebase Memory MCP Cures the 412k Token Tax Dragging Down AI Agents
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Codebase Memory MCP Cures the 412k Token Tax Dragging Down AI Agents
Vector RAG burns massive context on blind file searches — here is how deterministic knowledge graphs traverse codebases for 99% less. Continue reading on Medium
Your AI Is Forgetting Things On Purpose — And That’s Kind of Genius
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Your AI Is Forgetting Things On Purpose — And That’s Kind of Genius
The hidden math trick that could make ChatGPT-style AI 10x cheaper to run, explained like you’re hearing about it over coffee Continue reading on Stackademic »
Your AI Is Forgetting Things On Purpose — And That’s Kind of Genius
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Your AI Is Forgetting Things On Purpose — And That’s Kind of Genius
The hidden math trick that could make ChatGPT-style AI 10x cheaper to run, explained like you’re hearing about it over coffee Continue reading on Stackademic »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Did the Math on Claude Sonnet 5. The 60% Opus Discount Is Real, But Temporary.
Anthropic shipped Claude Sonnet 5, and the takes I saw were predictable: "It replaces Opus." "It is just another Sonnet refresh." "The benchmark chart means you
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to Stop ChatGPT and Claude From Forgetting Context in Long Conversations
ChatGPT and Claude forget context in long conversations because every model has a fixed context window — once the thread outgrows it, the oldest turns get dropp
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How I Cut Our LLM Bill by 40x — A CTO's Migration Playbook
How I Cut Our LLM Bill by 40x — A CTO's Migration Playbook Three months ago I opened our monthly infrastructure invoice and nearly choked on my coffee. We were
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Watched enterprise teams ship openai to production and hit the same wall
The room had no windows and the demo was going perfectly. Every question the team threw at the model, it answered. A CTO nodded. The pilot was approved. Everyon
When an LLM response fails validation, feed the error back into the retry
Dev.to · Na'aman Hirschfeld (Goldziher) 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
When an LLM response fails validation, feed the error back into the retry
If you ask an LLM for structured output and validate it against a schema, you already know the...
Demystifying Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Guide to Artificial Comprehension and Content…
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Demystifying Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Guide to Artificial Comprehension and Content…
I still remember the first time I used ChatGPT. I stared at my screen, typed a random prompt, and watched as it spat out a perfect… Continue reading on Medium »
Cost Per Token Explained: GPT vs Claude vs Gemini (2026)
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Cost Per Token Explained: GPT vs Claude vs Gemini (2026)
Token pricing is the part of AI API documentation that confuses more people than any other. The numbers are small ($0.15 per million… Continue reading on Medium
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The MMM Data Model -- A Normative Specification for Knowledge Interoperability in a Decentralisable Knowledge Commons
arXiv:2607.00032v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many information systems are built around documents: self-contained units optimised for print production and lin
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Constructing Epistemic AI Literacy: Detecting Epistemic Aims and Processes in Student-AI Co-Programming
arXiv:2607.00211v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Epistemic thinking plays a central role in students' learning processes when applying generative artificial inte
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
From Signals to Structure: How Memory Architecture Drives Language Emergence in LLM Agents
arXiv:2607.00233v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How do two agents invent a shared language from scratch? In a Lewis signaling game, a sender and receiver must c
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Seed2.0 Model Card: Towards Intelligence Frontier for Real-World Complexity
arXiv:2607.00248v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Seed2.0, a model series that takes a meaningful step toward solving complex, real-world tasks. Our ap
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Agri-SAGE: Simulation-Grounded Multi-Agent LLM for Context-Aware Agricultural Advisory Generation
arXiv:2607.00454v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agricultural advisory systems face a fundamental tension: static agronomic guidelines offer consistent, evidence
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI Native Games: A Survey and Roadmap
arXiv:2607.00527v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative AI now enables games to produce dialogue, quests, characters, images, and worlds at runtime. Yet gene
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
HARC: Coupling Harmfulness and Refusal Directions for Robust Safety Alignment
arXiv:2607.00572v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding how aligned LLMs internally represent safety is critical for diagnosing alignment vulnerabilities,
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Self-GC: Self-Governing Context for Long-Horizon LLM Agents
arXiv:2607.00692v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon LLM agents accumulate tool results, files, plans, and user constraints that are too structured to b
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Bayesian Uncertainty Propagation for Agentic RAG Pipelines: A Proof-of-Concept Study on Multi-Hop Question Answering
arXiv:2607.00972v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Trustworthy deployment of Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems requires mechanisms for estimatin
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Theoria: Rewrite-Acceptability Verification over Informal Reasoning States
arXiv:2607.01223v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When should an AI system's answer be trusted? Formal proof assistants offer certainty but cannot reach most of t
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AutoMem: Automated Learning of Memory as a Cognitive Skill
arXiv:2607.01224v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Memory expertise is a learned skill: knowing what to encode, when to retrieve, and how to organize knowledge--a
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
UltraFlux: Data-Model Co-Design for High-quality Native 4K Text-to-Image Generation across Diverse Aspect Ratios
arXiv:2511.18050v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion transformers have recently delivered strong text-to-image generation around 1K resolution, but we sh