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Large Language Models
Deep dives into GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama and the transformers powering modern AI
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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 · Arjun Shah
🧠 Large Language Models
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6d ago
I Built a Prompt Compressor That Saves 65% on LLM Costs — Here's the Story
I built an open-source prompt compressor now available on PyPI. Here's the story.

Dev.to · Arjun Shah
🧠 Large Language Models
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6d ago
SuperCompress: Cut LLM Costs by 65% Without Losing Answers
A short thread-style post about SuperCompress - open source prompt compression that saves 65% on tokens.

Dev.to · Arjun Shah
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
How I Built a Prompt Compressor That Saves 65% on LLM Costs
A technical deep-dive into building SuperCompress - a 5K parameter CPU policy that compresses LLM prompts by 65% with 100% oracle recall

Dev.to · YuhaoLin2005
🧠 Large Language Models
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6d ago
Has Anyone Measured How LLM Output Quality Degrades Across Multiple Compactions?
The Observation After ~70 sessions with DeepSeek V4 (1M context), I noticed something odd....

Dev.to · Shrijith Venkatramana
🧠 Large Language Models
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6d ago
How We Actually Measure Whether an LLM's Output Is Good - BLEU, COMET and BLEURT
Hello, I'm Shrijith Venkatramana. I'm building git-lrc, an AI code reviewer that runs on every...

Dev.to · KNALLHART.DEV
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6d ago
Getting an LLM to Actually Follow Your Output Format (Without Fighting It Every Request)
If you've ever asked an LLM to return output in a strict format — valid JSON, a specific HTML...

Dev.to · hey atlas
🧠 Large Language Models
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6d ago
I built a GitHub Action that fails CI when your llms.txt is broken
A zero-dependency GitHub Action that lints your llms.txt against the spec on every push, so ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude can actually read and cite your site.

Dev.to · Eduardo Villão
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
Stop Paying AI to Forget What You Already Know
I'm currently building many apps/things in parallel: a form backend, a WhatsApp review alert tool, my...
Simon Willison's Blog
🧠 Large Language Models
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6d ago
Quoting OpenAI
We're beginning a limited preview of the GPT‑5.6 series: Sol, our flagship model; Terra, a balanced model for everyday work; and Luna, a fast and affordable mod

Dev.to · Nolan Vale
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6d ago
Prompt Versioning Is Not Optional in Production. Here Is How to Actually Do It.
I have reviewed a lot of AI systems that are running in production with no version control on their...

Dev.to · Savas
🧠 Large Language Models
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6d ago
All you need is... (r)evolution!?
This is just an opinion of what I experience and am witnessing, but looking at how LLMs scale feels...

Dev.to · albe_sf
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6d ago
Your RAG Is Underperforming Because Your Embeddings Are Too Simple
Cohere's Compass model tackles multi-aspect data, a core reason why retrieval-augmented generation systems fail on complex enterprise documents. It’s a move awa

Dev.to · zeromathai
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6d ago
Why Positional Embeddings Matter — APE, RPE, and RoPE Explained for Developers
Self-Attention can compare every token with every other token. But there is a catch. By itself, it...

Dev.to · umbra
🧠 Large Language Models
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6d ago
I don't write my language by hand — an organism grows it (Day 5)
I'm building a programming language. But here's the strange part: I barely write it by hand anymore....

Dev.to · Jaleed Ahmad
🧠 Large Language Models
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6d ago
# I built a tool that found my LangGraph email agent could be hijacked to forward the entire inbox to an attacker
TL;DR: I discovered that standard LLM email agents with tool access are highly vulnerable to indirect...

Dev.to · Cristian Diaz Koziuk
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
Let your LLM take real-world actions — without giving it the last word
Most "AI agent" tutorials wire the model straight to execution: user asks → model decides → system...

Dev.to · Prateek Pareek
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
How to Fine-Tune an LLM: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide
Fine-tuning an LLM means taking a general pre-trained model and training it further on your own data...

Dev.to · jeann
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
Airline and Transport Chatbot Compliance using LiteLLM + Microsoft ASSERT
Policy-driven evaluation for airline/travel LLM assistants using Azure, LiteLLM and Microsoft ASSERT
Dev.to · Juan Torchia
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
PyTorch: el framework de deep learning que ganó la guerra
PyTorch apareció en 6 awesome lists independientes y el motivo es simple: ganó. No es hype, es infraestructura. Te cuento por qué está en nuestra lista y cuándo

Dev.to · Amir Reza Dalir
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
A Claude Skill That Turns Long AI Answers Into Short Notes
toot is a Claude Code skill — just one SKILL.md file, no code. It turns any long answer into short notes made of symbols, keeps your code unchanged, and transla

Dev.to · Ryan Giggs
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
I Built a Hybrid Search Engine From Scratch — Here's What I Learned (LLM Zoomcamp 2026, Module 2)
I just completed Module 2 of the LLM Zoomcamp 2026 by @DataTalksClub — and this module completely...

Dev.to · correctover
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
Correctover MCP Server: Your AI Assistant Now Knows When Your LLM Calls Are Actually Correct
Correctover MCP Server is the first contract-validation MCP tool on the Official Registry. 6-dimension validation in 22us. BYOK, zero markup. Install in 30 seco

Dev.to · Luigi Ippolito
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
Sml e Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb e i Small Language Models (SLM): un'analisi attraverso la lente della sua...

Dev.to · UXDraft
🧠 Large Language Models
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6d ago
Ultimate AI Prompt Guide: ChatGPT SaaS Copywriting Prompt Bundle
Ultimate AI Prompt Guide: ChatGPT SaaS Copywriting Prompt Bundle Discover how to...

Dev.to · UXDraft
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
Ultimate AI Prompt Guide: GPT-4o Data Analysis & Python Scripting Prompts
Ultimate AI Prompt Guide: GPT-4o Data Analysis & Python Scripting Prompts Discover how...

Dev.to · YAIT
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
Building a Multimodal AI Pipeline: Text Image Text Across Three Providers
Three providers, three modalities, under 55 lines of Python — and a PNG file on disk at the end....

Dev.to · gentlenode
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
I Wish I Knew About This OpenAI Swap Sooner — Full Breakdown
I Wish I Knew About This OpenAI Swap Sooner — Full Breakdown I'll be honest with you: I didn't set...

Dev.to · Mactrix XR
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
Mitigating Hallucinations in Theology AI: Implementing Groundedness Evaluation Pipelines
Mitigating Hallucinations in Theology AI: Implementing Groundedness Evaluation...

Dev.to · Shannon Dias
🧠 Large Language Models
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6d ago
The Production-Ready Guide to Self-Hosting LLaMA 3 on a GPU Dedicated Server
Most online AI guides share a major flaw: they are written for local development on a laptop rather...

Dev.to · MORINAGA
🧠 Large Language Models
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6d ago
Upgrading fallback AI model entries to curated quality with a deterministic hash pool
How polish.py upgrades 380 model entries without an API call: MD5-based pool selection, license and framework extraction from HuggingFace tags, and why determin

Dev.to · GWEN
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
I got tired of managing separate APIs for GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Qwen
I’ve been building with LLM APIs for a while, and one thing that keeps getting annoying is not the...

Dev.to · Ndukwe Daniel
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
Understanding Long-Term Memory: The Foundation of AI Self-Evolution (2024)
Note: This article is a summary and interpretation of the research paper Long Term Memory: The...

Dev.to · Oleksandr Kuryzhev
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
Self-Hosted Ollama Homelab: 3 Mistakes Running Local LLMs
Originally published on kuryzhev.cloud We thought setting up a self-hosted Ollama homelab for...

Dev.to · Elowen
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
How to Build a Real-Time AI Agent with LangChain + TalorData
If you're building AI agents in 2026, one thing becomes obvious pretty quickly: without real-time...

Dev.to · Sahajmeet Kaur
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
LiteLLM vs OpenRouter: I Used Both. Here's Where Each One Actually Broke.
LiteLLM vs OpenRouter isn't a close call, they're solving different problems. I ran both in production before understanding that. Here's the honest breakdown of

Dev.to · Sumedh Bala
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
Claude Code Costs, Act III — The ecosystem of options for spending less
There is a whole open-source ecosystem aimed at cutting LLM cost. The trick to evaluating any of it...

Dev.to · plasma
🧠 Large Language Models
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6d ago
My LLM API Calls Were Failing Silently. Here's the Logging Setup I Wish I Had Earlier
The first few LLM API bugs I hit in production were easy to notice. The request failed. The user saw...

Dev.to · Vivek Kumar
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
Prompting AI for Complex Multi-Table SQL: A Practical Guide
Generic prompts produce broken JOINs. Learn the exact techniques — schema injection, chain-of-thought, few-shot examples — that get AI to write accurate multi-t

Dev.to · Sasidhar Prathipati
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
The Day My Research Assistant Finally Got a Memory
I've spent the last few weeks wrestling with a problem that I suspect many AI builders share: my...

Dev.to · Raj Savaliya
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
Can AI Scan the Internet? AI Search vs Real-Time Monitoring
Yes, modern AI can scan the internet in real time, reading and synthesizing web data for instant answers. Learn how AI search differs from traditional engines a

Dev.to · kapil Maheshwari
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
6d ago
Prompt Caching vs Fine-Tuning: Cost-Effective LLM Strategies
Explore prompt caching versus fine-tuning for LLM cost reduction in startups.

Dev.to · Takafumi Endo
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
The Wrapper Got Heavy: Why ChatGPT Clones Are Runtime Problems Now
'Just a ChatGPT wrapper' stopped being an insult. The thing you'd wrap became a runtime — sandbox, agent loop, state gravity. Notes from building it, and where
Dev.to · Paul Twist
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Oracle Cloud Just Made LiteLLM a Native Provider for OCI Generative AI
Oracle Cloud announced this week that LiteLLM is now a first-class provider for Oracle Generative AI...

Dev.to · BAOFUFAN
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
I Used pytest for 3 Years Before Realizing I Never Actually Tested LLM Memory Persistence
It was 2:30 a.m. when a user complaint exploded on my phone: “Your chatbot has amnesia again—it...

Dev.to · Muhammet ŞAFAK
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
Getting structured JSON out of five incompatible LLM APIs — and degrading when they ignore you
CommitBrief renders a code review as cards, JSON schema v1, or a CI exit code — which means the LLM...

Dev.to · Josh Shay
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Why I stopped trying to correct my AI model and made incoherence algebraically impossible
Every large language model I've looked at does the same thing with coherence: it monitors for it,...

Dev.to · Gate of AI
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
GPT-5.2 Medical Quiz App Integration Guide
🚀 Technical Briefing: This tutorial is part of our deep-dive series on Agentic Workflows at Gate of...

Dev.to · Gate of AI
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Build a RAG System with Claude & ChatGPT APIs
> 🚀 Technical Briefing: This tutorial is part of our deep-dive series on Agentic Workflows at Gate...
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