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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
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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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Building an AI Scoring Pipeline for 10,000+ Listings a Day
Dev.to · Abdul Rehman 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Building an AI Scoring Pipeline for 10,000+ Listings a Day
What I learned processing a million job listings with LLMs — architecture, cost control, and when AI beats traditional ML.
Phase 2: Embeddings & Semantic Search
Dev.to · surajrkhonde 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Phase 2: Embeddings & Semantic Search
From Text to Vectors: The Complete Story The Story Starts: Why Can't We Just...
I Compared 4,000+ AI API Prices So You Don't Have To
Dev.to · yego 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Compared 4,000+ AI API Prices So You Don't Have To
If you're building with LLMs, API costs can quietly kill your margin. The official pricing pages look...
I Built an AI Content Team That Posts to My Blog While I Sleep
Dev.to · Sam Hartley 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Built an AI Content Team That Posts to My Blog While I Sleep
I used to write blog posts the old way. Open a blank page. Stare at it. Write something. Rewrite it...
What You Can Safely Put Into ChatGPT: The Postcard Rule
Dev.to · Matthias | StudioMeyer 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
What You Can Safely Put Into ChatGPT: The Postcard Rule
Not everything belongs in an AI chat. A simple rule, three buckets, and the anonymizing trick that lets a small business use real data without giving it away.
Do not treat LangGraph as a longer chain: define state, interrupts, and recovery first
Dev.to · Tang Weigang 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Do not treat LangGraph as a longer chain: define state, interrupts, and recovery first
The easiest way to misunderstand LangGraph is to see it as “LangChain, but with more steps.” That...
Reranking: Retrieve Fast, Then Reorder Precisely (Better RAG)
Dev.to · Devanshu Biswas 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Reranking: Retrieve Fast, Then Reorder Precisely (Better RAG)
Your RAG retriever pulls 50 candidate docs in milliseconds — but the best one is often sitting at...
LLM Gateway vs MCP Gateway: Understanding the New AI Infrastructure Stack
Dev.to · TrueFoundry 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
LLM Gateway vs MCP Gateway: Understanding the New AI Infrastructure Stack
As AI applications evolve from simple chatbots into autonomous agents, a new infrastructure layer is...
I built a Rust entropy monitor to route LLM inference — here's what the benchmark showed
Dev.to · Manoj Krishna Mohan 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I built a Rust entropy monitor to route LLM inference — here's what the benchmark showed
Frontier LLM inference is expensive. I wanted to see how far a 4B local model could go before needing...
How Claude AI Actually Works: The Technical Story Behind the Scenes
Dev.to · Prateek Pareek 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How Claude AI Actually Works: The Technical Story Behind the Scenes
Wondering how Claude AI works? Simply put, Claude is a large language model built by Anthropic that...
Multilingual code gap exposed by Multi‑LCB
Dev.to · Papers Mache 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Multilingual code gap exposed by Multi‑LCB
LLMs achieve high scores on Python coding tasks, yet their proficiency drops for the eleven other...
How I built pairwise AI model compare pages with Claude Haiku and a budget cap
Dev.to · MORINAGA 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How I built pairwise AI model compare pages with Claude Haiku and a budget cap
The O(n²) combinatorics problem with AI directory compare pages, how I budget-capped Claude Haiku calls, and dumped results to static JSON for Astro.
From Code to Governance: The Complete Guide to LLM Token Optimization
Dev.to · Orvi Das 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
From Code to Governance: The Complete Guide to LLM Token Optimization
Your token costs are growing faster than your usage. You've already optimized model selection on...
The Open-Model Cost Chart Everyone's Sharing Is API Prices. Here's What Self-Hosting Actually Gets You (Measured)
Dev.to · byeongsoo kang 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Open-Model Cost Chart Everyone's Sharing Is API Prices. Here's What Self-Hosting Actually Gets You (Measured)
The intelligence-vs-cost chart shows open models winning the value quadrant. True, but the x-axis is API price. The cheap open winners (GLM-5.2 ~744B) don't fit
Use a flat-priced, auto-routing LLM API in Aider or Cline — one npx command
Dev.to · chenxiao5580-cmd 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Use a flat-priced, auto-routing LLM API in Aider or Cline — one npx command
A ~120-line zero-dependency local proxy that makes a flat-priced, auto-routing LLM API work as a drop-in OpenAI endpoint in Aider, Cline, Continue, or any OpenA
We're Moving LiteLLM to Rust. Here's What the Benchmarks Look Like.
Dev.to · Paul Twist 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
We're Moving LiteLLM to Rust. Here's What the Benchmarks Look Like.
LiteLLM is migrating to Rust: 15x throughput, 11x less memory, sub-1ms overhead. Here are the benchmark numbers and the migration plan.
GLM-5.2 Is Cheap Because It's Subsidized, Not Efficient
Dev.to · Max Quimby 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
GLM-5.2 Is Cheap Because It's Subsidized, Not Efficient
GLM-5.2 burns 2x the tokens of its predecessor. The real cost edge is provider pricing — and it's repriceable overnight.
The 5 Things Your LLM Benchmark Misses That Actually Decide the Winner
Dev.to · Lavelle Hatcher Jr 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The 5 Things Your LLM Benchmark Misses That Actually Decide the Winner
A practical guide to choosing the right LLM for your use case, before a generic ranking talks you...
Turn Your Best AI Conversations Into a Blog — and Give Your Model a Memory That Lasts
Dev.to · linz001 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Turn Your Best AI Conversations Into a Blog — and Give Your Model a Memory That Lasts
blogs.city blogifies and wiki-fies the dialogue you already have with large models — Hermes, OpenClaw, and any AI editor.
How to Prove Your AI Did What It Said: A Developer's Guide to Verifiable AI Outputs
Dev.to · Adeola Okunola 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to Prove Your AI Did What It Said: A Developer's Guide to Verifiable AI Outputs
Attach a cryptographically signed receipt to every LLM call so you, your auditors, and your customers can verify what your AI produced, when, and from what inpu
The LLM is an ALU
Dev.to · Matt 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The LLM is an ALU
Why Your AI Agent Needs a guy who wrote games on a ZX Spectrum A few weeks ago I was...
Why Beginners Should Ask AI More Questions Before Building An App
Dev.to · Marcus Kim 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why Beginners Should Ask AI More Questions Before Building An App
The beginner mistake with AI is not asking a bad first question. That part is normal. The real...
How Much Does It Actually Cost to Run a Local LLM? (€ per Million Tokens, Measured)
Dev.to · Arsen Apostolov 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How Much Does It Actually Cost to Run a Local LLM? (€ per Million Tokens, Measured)
"It runs on my own GPU, so it's basically free." I believed that until I put a meter on it. So I ran...
I built a local AI memory gate on a CPU, and my 7B model scored worse than my 1.5B model because it was too smart
Dev.to · Roan de Jager 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I built a local AI memory gate on a CPU, and my 7B model scored worse than my 1.5B model because it was too smart
Hi everyone, I've been hacking on a personal, local project called Hillock. Honestly, it's very much...
Designing a Synthetic Data Pipeline for Persian LLM Fine Tuning: From Topic Graphs to QLoRA Evaluation
Dev.to · Mohammad Heydari 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Designing a Synthetic Data Pipeline for Persian LLM Fine Tuning: From Topic Graphs to QLoRA Evaluation
Introduction: Why this project matters? Training instruction following LLMs is no longer just about...
TensorSharp: .NET Native Open Source Local LLM Inference Engine
Dev.to · Zhongkai Fu 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
TensorSharp: .NET Native Open Source Local LLM Inference Engine
TensorSharp I would like to share my latest open source .net native local LLM inference engine and...
June 25 - AI, ML, and Computer Vision Meetup
Dev.to · Jimmy Guerrero 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
June 25 - AI, ML, and Computer Vision Meetup
Join us on June 25 at 9 AM Pacific for the monthly AI, ML, and Computer Vision Meetup! Register...
We built a new AI Topology to bypass the Transformer bottleneck. Here are our first benchmark results.
Dev.to · Zoheb Malik 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
We built a new AI Topology to bypass the Transformer bottleneck. Here are our first benchmark results.
If you’ve been following the AI space, you know we are hitting a physical compute ceiling. Standard...
Top AI Papers on Hugging Face - 2026-06-22
Dev.to · Y Hành Nhan 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Top AI Papers on Hugging Face - 2026-06-22
10 paper AI nổi bật nhất trên Hugging Face hôm nay: từ inpainting siêu nhẹ đến benchmark đa...
Dumping chat history into a vector database is the worst way to give an AI memory. Here is how I built a "Structured Memory" layer that separates conversation from durable human facts.
Dev.to · Marwan Hamdy 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Dumping chat history into a vector database is the worst way to give an AI memory. Here is how I built a "Structured Memory" layer that separates conversation from durable human facts.
I Turned a Dead Discord Bot Into an AI Therapist That Actually Remembers You ...
I wanted to build an AI companion, so my first step was limiting what the AI is actually allowed to think. Here is how I used "Semantic Intake" to force the LLM to understand context before it speaks:
Dev.to · Marwan Hamdy 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I wanted to build an AI companion, so my first step was limiting what the AI is actually allowed to think. Here is how I used "Semantic Intake" to force the LLM to understand context before it speaks:
I Turned a Dead Discord Bot Into an AI Therapist That Actually Remembers You ...
RAG Systems with Claude: From Documentation to Production
Dev.to · Shoaib Iqbal 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
RAG Systems with Claude: From Documentation to Production
Meta: Build production-grade RAG systems using Claude and vector search. Step-by-step guide to...
'"An LLM and a harness": Nvidia''s simple thesis on what agents actually are'
Dev.to · Andrew Kew 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
'"An LLM and a harness": Nvidia''s simple thesis on what agents actually are'
Nvidia's Nader Khalil — Director of Developer Technologies and co-founder of Brev.dev, acquired by...
How I Cut My LLM API Bill by 80% With a Simple Router
Dev.to · chnby 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How I Cut My LLM API Bill by 80% With a Simple Router
No fancy infrastructure. Just a 50-line Python function that picks the right model for the right...
Catch LLM hallucinations with multi-model consensus
Dev.to · Wade Allen 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Catch LLM hallucinations with multi-model consensus
A single model gives you a single point of failure: when it's confidently wrong, you get no signal...
Three Rounds of Training Turn a Word-Predictor Into a Chatbot. None of Them Are Magic.
Dev.to · Karthi Raman 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Three Rounds of Training Turn a Word-Predictor Into a Chatbot. None of Them Are Magic.
Last time I argued that the Transformer, the architecture under basically every model you've heard...
The AI Prompts I Wish I Had Right After Graduation
Dev.to · Ashley B 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The AI Prompts I Wish I Had Right After Graduation
The AI Prompts I Wish I Had Right After Graduation Graduation advice is weird. Half the...
Sharing Claude Context Across a Team Is the New Org Chart
Dev.to · Matt Cretzman 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Sharing Claude Context Across a Team Is the New Org Chart
A 12-person team without a shared Claude context layer burns $93K-$175K a year re-prompting from scratch. Here is the stack that compounds instead.
Literature Review Automation: Search and Analyze Hundreds of Academic Papers in Minutes
Dev.to · NexGenData 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Literature Review Automation: Search and Analyze Hundreds of Academic Papers in Minutes
You're a graduate student starting research on machine learning interpretability. Your advisor says:...
Embeddings: Turning Meaning Into Numbers
Dev.to · Devanshu Biswas 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Embeddings: Turning Meaning Into Numbers
Yesterday we turned text into tokens. Today: how those tokens become meaning a computer can work with...
Transformers From Scratch: Assembling the Block Behind GPT
Dev.to · Devanshu Biswas 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Transformers From Scratch: Assembling the Block Behind GPT
Yesterday: attention — each token deciding how much to look at every other token. Today we assemble...
Why Multi-Head Attention Needs Position, Residuals, and Normalization
Dev.to · zeromathai 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why Multi-Head Attention Needs Position, Residuals, and Normalization
Self-Attention is powerful. But by itself, it has three problems. It needs multiple views, it needs...
How to Stop One Customer From Blowing Up Your Entire LLM Budget
Dev.to · John Medina 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to Stop One Customer From Blowing Up Your Entire LLM Budget
So your SaaS is finally getting some traction. Congrats. Then you check your OpenAI bill and realize...
You don't need the internet to run research - document 05 ? local ai inference performance. We made sure of it.
Dev.to · Lois-Kleinner 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
You don't need the internet to run research - document 05 ? local ai inference performance. We made sure of it.
**research - Document 05 ? Local AI Inference Performance** --- ## The Problem This document presents a comprehensive benchmark analysis of local AI inference p
The cloud was never necessary for Local-First AI Inference. Here's why.
Dev.to · Lois-Kleinner 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The cloud was never necessary for Local-First AI Inference. Here's why.
**Local-First AI Inference: Architectural Patterns for Fully Offline LLM Deployment** --- ## The Problem The dependence of large language model (LLM) inference
Semantic caching our flaky-test summariser: 58% fewer LLM calls
Dev.to · claire nguyen 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Semantic caching our flaky-test summariser: 58% fewer LLM calls
TL;DR: Our internal flaky-test summariser at Buildkite was firing ~40k LLM calls a day, and most were...
I gave myself an AI advisory board — three models argue, I decide
Dev.to · Martin Havel 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I gave myself an AI advisory board — three models argue, I decide
How I run a panel of three LLMs in different roles to prepare a decision — and why the decision itself always stays human.
How to Export Your Lovable Project and Accelerate Development
Dev.to · Nico Acosta 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to Export Your Lovable Project and Accelerate Development
Have you reached the limits of Lovable? This guide will walk you through exporting your project to GitHub in under 15 minutes to continue building with AI agent