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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 · StickyTr33
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Why I Run AI Locally Instead of Using ChatGPT for Client Work
Let me start with a question my clients ask me a lot: "Can't we just use ChatGPT for this?" My...

Dev.to · Constant, Yuan Chen
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1w ago
Sipp: a local-first runtime for Hybrid AI Applications
Over the past few months, I had the opportunity to contribute to llama.cpp’s WebGPU backend, helping...

Dev.to · danio
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1w ago
Real photos in ChatGPT, 30-second AI video, and AI inside A24 — 3 stories that blur "real vs AI" media
Three AI stories landed this week that all poke at the same nerve: the images, video, and films we...

Dev.to · OmarMashal
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1w ago
I edited a system prompt and had no way to prove it changed anything. So I built a measurement tool.
I edited a system prompt and had no way to prove it changed anything. So I built a...
Lenny's Newsletter
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
GLM 5.2: why I’m replacing Opus in Claude Code with this new model
Watch now | ️I ran GLM-5.2, the open-weight model from Z.AI, through codebase audits, UI redesigns, and a 45-minute autonomous bug-hunting task in Cursor and C

Dev.to · Bryan Clark
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1w ago
How LLM agents confabulate infrastructure and data provenance
Give an agent a tool that returns a number and ask it a question, and it will often answer with the...

Dev.to · plasma
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1w ago
GLM 5.2 Is Now Available on TokenBay: Testing It with the OpenAI SDK
GLM 5.2 is now available on TokenBay. If you're already using the OpenAI SDK, this means you can try...

Dev.to · tokencnn
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
Building a Multilingual AI Chatbot for Indian Languages with Qwen 3
The Challenge Most LLMs are English-centric. For Indian developers building apps for...

Dev.to · FatherSon
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1w ago
Claude Fable 5 (Mythos-Class) for Polymarket Trading Bots: The Long-Context Agentic Leap Developers Needed
Anthropic dropped Claude Fable 5 on June 9, 2026 — the first public Mythos-class model. It’s the...

Dev.to · JackChen
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1w ago
From Transcript to Typed Action Items: Three Parallel Agents in TypeScript
Most meeting summarizers cram summary, action items, and sentiment into one LLM prompt. Here's a cleaner TypeScript shape: three specialist agents run in parall

Dev.to · cchsh
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1w ago
Using LLMs for slide: MDPR + mdpr-skill
I have been building MDPR, a deterministic Markdown-to-editable-PPTX runtime, and mdpr-skill, an...

Dev.to · Maryam Fatima
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1w ago
Claude vs Gemini vs ChatGPT: Which AI Tool Is Best in 2026?
Claude vs Gemini vs ChatGPT: Which AI Tool Is Best in 2026? Introduction Artificial Intelligence...

Dev.to · Zhouxia Qian
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
The Complete Guide to OpenAI-Compatible APIs for Chinese LLMs
A technical comparison of OpenAI-compatible API gateways that provide access to DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM, and other Chinese models — covering migration, cost, latenc

Dev.to · Zhouxia Qian
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
How to Use Chinese LLMs (Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM) Without a Chinese Phone Number
The complete guide to accessing Chinese AI models from overseas — including Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM, and others — without needing +86 SMS verification or Alipay.
Dev.to · Peremptory
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
Google Lost the Transformer's Co-Author. Then AlphaFold. Same Week.
Noam Shazeer, co-author of \"Attention Is All You Need,\" left Google for OpenAI on June 18. Days later, Nobel laureate John Jumper left for Anthropic. Both exi

Dev.to · ail akram
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
GLM-5.2: The Open-Weight Model Challenging GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus at a Fraction of the Cost
GLM-5.2, released on June 13, 2026 by Z.ai, the commercial brand of Tsinghua University-spawned Zhipu...

Dev.to · Wahaj
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
Why I Didn't Use an AST Parser in My AI Code Commenter (And Why That's the Right Call)
Every AI code documentation tool I looked at had the same problem: it sent your entire file to an LLM...

Dev.to · plasma
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
One API Key for GPT, Claude, Gemini, and Qwen: A Practical Guide to OpenAI-Compatible Model Routing
If you've built anything serious with LLM APIs, you've probably hit this pattern: GPT is great for...

Dev.to · Whatsonyourmind
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
Stop letting your AI agent eyeball A/B picks — wire in a real contextual bandit via MCP (free, no key)
If you give an LLM agent a table of A/B variants and ask "which one should we send next?", it will...

Dev.to · Marcus Chen
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
Bootstrap confidence intervals for your LLM eval metrics
TL;DR: A single eval number hides its own uncertainty. Eval confidence intervals from bootstrap...

Dev.to · Jehadur Rahman (Emran)
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
The Invisible 99%: Why Low-Resource Languages Need More AI Research
In the current landscape of rapid AI development, large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and LLaMA...

Dev.to · M Hossein
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
The Physical Laws of AI Migrations: Architecting an LLM Orchestrator that Survives Reality
Large codebase migrations are not typing problems; they are distributed state machine problems. When...

Dev.to · rarenode
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
How I Cut My AI Bill by 62% — A Freelancer's Guide to Context Windows in 2026
How I Cut My AI Bill by 62% — A Freelancer's Guide to Context Windows in 2026 Every month, I sit...

Dev.to · Muhammet ŞAFAK
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
I built a local-first LLM code reviewer in Go. Here's the entire pipeline.
CommitBrief is a local-first CLI that runs an LLM review over your git diff before a teammate — or...

Dev.to · Sarkar
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
The Pattern Nobody Wants to Name Why Your LLM Can't Help You Debug Code Changes (And How to Fix It)
You ask Claude: "Why is my app slow after I deployed this code change?" Claude gives you generic...
Dev.to · lu1tr0n
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
Valsorda: con LLMs, los reportes de vulnerabilidades ya no son especiales
Filippo Valsorda, ex-líder del equipo de seguridad de Go, argumenta que en 2026 los LLM volvieron abundante la insight de seguridad: el cuello de bote

Dev.to · SAIHM-Admin
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1w ago
A drop-in, ownable memory for LangChain and LlamaIndex — over MCP
by the Architect · Apache-2.0 If you build agents, you have already met the memory problem. The...

Dev.to · thestackunderflow
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
How LLM Tokens Work (And Why They Explain Your AI Bill)
Your LLM never reads your words — it reads tokens. And almost every surprise on your AI bill traces...

Dev.to · Maria jose Gonzalez Antelo
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
Mitigating Algorithmic Bias and Hallucinations in LLM-Driven Job Matching: A Compliance Framework for the EU AI Act and DSA
Meta: Learn how to mitigate LLM hallucinations and algorithmic bias in job matching systems to ensure...

Dev.to · Iskander
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
The Edit Is the Memory
The AI industry has spent a decade treating forgetting as failure. But the brain isn't a storage system — it's a compression system.

Dev.to · Kartik N V J K
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
How I A/B test LLM prompts without fooling myself
A while back I was building a support assistant and hit a simple-sounding question: is this new...

Dev.to · Giovani Machado Corrêa
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
What a Fast LLM Taught Me About Assumptions
Most of our tooling was built for one kind of error. The expensive one is the other. A cheap, fast...

Dev.to · UXDraft
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
Ultimate AI Prompt Guide: AI Performance Review & Feedback Kit — 45+ Prompts for HR & Managers
Ultimate AI Prompt Guide: AI Performance Review & Feedback Kit — 45+ Prompts for HR...

Dev.to · Agntable
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
A Developer Roadmap for Building Production-Ready AI Agents
Most AI agent projects start with a simple idea: Connect an LLM to a few tools and let it complete...

Dev.to · Brandon Harrell
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
Employed project. KV Store from scratch in Rust
Introduction and motivations Hello my name is Brandon, thought I'm known through most of...

Dev.to · Marcus Chen
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
Benchmarking 5 LLM providers on one eval set, no SDK per vendor
TL;DR: We run a 1,200-case eval suite for enterprise agent automation at Nexus Labs. Comparing models...

Dev.to · Yash Kumar Saini
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
Dev log #7 Reviving DevNotion: 10,000 Lines, Multi-LLM Support, and the Road to v2.1
Spent the week breathing new life into DevNotion—59 commits and over 10,000 lines of code later,...

Dev.to · Brenn Hill
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
You can't prevent prompt injection. So what do you actually do?
No current model reliably refuses adversarial input dressed up as instructions, so stop trying to prevent prompt injection and start designing for the state you

Dev.to · Sonal Jain
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
The demo always works. That's the problem.
A project manager on the real work that begins after the AI demo impresses everyone: scoping past the 'magic' expectation, treating LLM accuracy as a measurable

Dev.to · Sajid Islam
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
I built a mini agent framework in Python to understand how LangGraph actually works under the hood
Everyone I know learning agentic AI right now is learning to use frameworks. They call .invoke(),...

Dev.to · 7090 yue
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
Building a Free AI PDF Assistant: How I Solved Parsing Issues and Minimized LLM Costs
As a developer, my desk is constantly cluttered with documentation, API references, and whitepapers....
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Dev.to · André Dias Moreira Prol
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
Claude AI by Anthropic: Key Features That Set This Model Apart in 2024 [EN]
Throughout my two decades managing IT infrastructure and building solutions across Web3, blockchain,...

Dev.to · M Hossein
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
I switched on production evals for my LLM app — and they scored nothing
What data privacy taught me about online evals, and why I stopped treating LLM prompts like magic and...

Dev.to · BAOFUFAN
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1w ago
10x Faster LLM Memory Testing: From Manual Verification to Pytest Automation
It was 1 a.m. when a colleague messaged me: our smart customer service bot had amnesia again — “The...

Dev.to · gentlenode
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
ERNIE 4.5 vs DeepSeek V4: The Freelancer's Honest Breakdown
ERNIE 4.5 vs DeepSeek V4: The Freelancer's Honest Breakdown I'll be honest with you — picking an LLM...
Dev.to · Amit Nabarro
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1w ago
Monitoring LLM costs in production: tokens, tenants, and alerts
A practical guide to LLM cost observability: structured logging, Langfuse dashboards, OpenTelemetry metrics, per-tenant budgets, and the unit economics finance

Dev.to · Gaurang Ghinaiya
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1w ago
RAG vs Fine-Tuning: Which One Does Your Business Actually Need?
Every business exploring AI eventually hits the same fork: should we fine-tune a model on our data,...

Dev.to · vuhuutam459-max
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
Meet Chatrove: a 100% local, open-source vault for your AI chats
If you followed my earlier posts about Gemini Vault — this is the same project, grown up and renamed....
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