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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

Dev.to · Devanshu Biswas
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1h ago
How to Make an LLM 2-3x Faster Without Changing a Single Word It Says
Large language models are slow for one stubborn reason: they write one token at a time. To produce a...

Dev.to · albe_sf
🧠 Large Language Models
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2h ago
Google's V2A is the other half of generative video
Most generative video models ship silent. Google DeepMind's new V2A technology generates synchronized audio from video pixels and text prompts, pointing to a fu

Dev.to · Parinay Pandey
🧠 Large Language Models
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2h ago
From Neo4j Fundamentals to GraphRAG: 7 Things I Learned About Building Modern AI Agents
For a long time, I assumed building better AI applications meant using better LLMs. After learning...

Dev.to · Harpreet Singh Seehra
🧠 Large Language Models
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3h ago
How to Build an AI Chat Endpoint in Node.js with the Telnyx AI Assistants API
Most "add an AI assistant to my app" tutorials stop at the demo. They show you how to call an LLM and...

Dev.to · Ryan Palo
🧠 Large Language Models
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3h ago
Optimizing for Agents with llms.txt
If you’ve spent any time poking around the AIE World’s Fair 2026 website, you may have come across...

Dev.to · Mostafa Fathy
🧠 Large Language Models
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3h ago
The Multi-Agent Architecture for Education
Why a single LLM prompt wasn't enough - and how splitting curriculum generation into specialized agents cut production time while improving consistency across t

Dev.to · Alex Tong
🧠 Large Language Models
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4h ago
When Claude starts hallucinating, kill the session
Most people don't realize they're 30 minutes into arguing with an AI that stopped listening 20 minutes ago. The fix: throw the session away.

Dev.to · eagerspark
🧠 Large Language Models
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5h ago
I Cut My AI Bill 97.5% in One Afternoon — And You Can Too
So here's what happened: i Cut My AI Bill 97.5% in One Afternoon — And You Can Too Last month I...

Dev.to · zhongqiyue
🧠 Large Language Models
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7h ago
How I Stopped Fighting Hallucinations in LLM Data Extraction
We all know the feeling. You've got a stack of invoices, contracts, or some other semi-structured...

Dev.to · Klinsmann R
🧠 Large Language Models
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7h ago
Understanding How LLMs Work: From Text to Tokens, Embeddings, Transformers, and Predictions
Artificial Intelligence is nothing new. It has been around since the early days of computing and has...

Dev.to · Shreyas Rasaikar
🧠 Large Language Models
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7h ago
How ChatGPT Understands Your Questions: A Beginner-Friendly Guide
Introduction Have you ever typed a question into ChatGPT and received a useful answer...

Dev.to · Saumya Agrawal
🧠 Large Language Models
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7h ago
I Got Tired of Not Understanding AI Jargon. Here’s What Actually Happens When You Hit Enter.
There's a massive gap between knowing how to use AI and knowing what you're actually using. I lived...

Dev.to · MORINAGA
🧠 Large Language Models
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8h ago
Four filters I apply when pulling HuggingFace models into an AI tools directory
HuggingFace has 900k+ models. Here's the four-filter chain I use to pick what surfaces on aiappdex.com, and what each filter actually catches.

Dev.to · Abdul Rehman
🧠 Large Language Models
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8h ago
I Built an AI Job Board Processing 10K+ Listings Daily Here's the Real Architecture
The production architecture decisions behind a Next.js + OpenAI job board handling 10K+ daily listings with cost-efficient LLM scoring.

Dev.to · Joseph Budinger
🧠 Large Language Models
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8h ago
# Securing API Tokens: Protecting Your AI Applications from Credential Leakage
As organizations increasingly integrate large language models (LLMs) into applications, API tokens...

Dev.to · RESK
🧠 Large Language Models
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10h ago
Hardening LLM Apps in TypeScript: 11 Threat Detectors with resk-llm-ts
Open-source TypeScript security toolkit for LLM apps. 11 threat detectors, Express/Hono/OpenAI middleware.

Dev.to · Hardik Mehta
🧠 Large Language Models
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11h ago
Stop Guessing: Guaranteed Structured Output from LLMs in Node.js
Stop Parsing LLM JSON. The Backend Already Knows Better. If you've built anything with...

Dev.to · Alkademy
🧠 Large Language Models
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11h ago
RAG with Spring Boot — Embeddings and Vector Search Step by Step (2026)
Canonical URL: Republished from munonye.com. Full code on GitHub. Learn how to build a RAG Spring...

Dev.to · Vladimir Panov
🧠 Large Language Models
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12h ago
Notes: Memory, Context, and Large Language Models (LLMs)
Notes following a discussion on how memory works in language models - and how it could be improved:...

Dev.to · 龚旭东
🧠 Large Language Models
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14h ago
How We Translate 300-Page Books Using Claude Without Hitting Token Limits
Breaking long documents into overlapping chunks, preserving context, and reassembling with...

Dev.to · routerbasecom
🧠 Large Language Models
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14h ago
A simple way to test model fallbacks with RouterBase
Fallback logic is easier to reason about when the application has one request shape and the model...

Dev.to · RileyKim
🧠 Large Language Models
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16h ago
Open-Source LLM APIs Beat Self-Hosting. Here's the Math.
So here's what happened: open-Source LLM APIs Beat Self-Hosting. Here's the Math. Last quarter I sat...

Dev.to · Hector Hernandez Cruz
🧠 Large Language Models
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17h ago
Building a Production RAG Pipeline with Hybrid Retrieval and LangChain
Most RAG tutorials get you 70% of the way there. This is about the other 30% that actually matters in...
Simon Willison's Blog
🧠 Large Language Models
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17h ago
Quoting Anthropic
We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will

Dev.to · Rohith Matam
🧠 Large Language Models
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18h ago
I built a tool that cuts Claude/ChatGPT token usage by 97% — here's how it works
The Problem You're debugging a bug. You open Claude. You paste 10 files. You hit the context...

Dev.to · vishalmysore
🧠 Large Language Models
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19h ago
Serverless AI in a Browser Tab: Java WebAssembly + Local WebGPU LLMs
A deep technical whitepaper on building a zero-infrastructure RAG architecture where the...

Dev.to · Rijul Rajesh
🧠 Large Language Models
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20h ago
Building LSTMs with PyTorch and Lightning AI Part 7: Resuming Training with Checkpoints
In the previous article, we used TensorBoard to analyze the training process. Based on the graphs, we...

Dev.to · Stanislav
🧠 Large Language Models
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21h ago
Debugging Benchmark: DeepSeek V4 Pro vs MiMo V2.5 Pro
A real-world comparison of two LLMs on a genuine race condition bug from GitHub ...

Dev.to · popiol
🧠 Large Language Models
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21h ago
How I'm re-discovering computer science with LLM revolution
I've been in this business for years and the best (or worst?) thing is that once I gain enough...

Dev.to · Jakub
🧠 Large Language Models
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1d ago
Why Press-Release Citations Decay in AI Grounding (and What We Measure Instead)
We run a portfolio of products at Inithouse. One of them, Be Recommended, tracks how AI engines cite...

Dev.to · Webmaster Ramos
🧠 Large Language Models
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1d ago
Frontier LLMs Get 2 of 3 Tax Returns Wrong - Stop Letting Them Decide
Everyone is wiring LLMs into checkout flows right now. I want to make the unpopular case that for the...

Dev.to · DoremonAI
🧠 Large Language Models
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1d ago
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra & GLM-5.2: The Open Model Flood Is Here (June 2026)
Two major open-weight models just dropped: NVIDIA's 550B Nemotron 3 Ultra and Z.AI's MIT-licensed GLM-5.2. Plus Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash gains computer use. He

Dev.to · VelocityAI
🧠 Large Language Models
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1d ago
The Data That Built the Brain: What Actually Went Into Training GPT-4 (and What Was Left Out)
You ask an AI a question. It answers. It sounds smart. It sounds like it has read everything. It has....

Dev.to · Andy Tan
🧠 Large Language Models
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1d ago
Amazon Bedrock Deployment Guide: From Environment Setup to Production Operations
Amazon Bedrock, AWS's fully managed service for foundation models, makes it much easier to build and...

Dev.to · correctover
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1d ago
That 200 OK From Your LLM Gateway Probably Means Nothing
Every AI gateway on the market — LiteLLM, Portkey, OpenRouter, Olla — checks the same things: HTTP...

Dev.to · Abdul Rehman
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1d ago
I Built an AI Pipeline for 10,000 Daily Listings. Here's What Broke at Scale.
Lessons from running an LLM scoring pipeline in production: cost management, function calling architecture, and error handling.

Dev.to · Renato Marinho
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1d ago
Stop browsing Hugging Face like it's 2015
Stop manual browsing and use the Hugging Face MCP to audit models, datasets, and spaces directly from your AI agent.

Dev.to · Satyam Rastogi
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2d ago
GPT-5.6 Sol: Red Team Implications of OpenAI's Token-Efficient Cybersecurity AI
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol achieves competitive security AI performance with one-third token consumption. Red teams analyze offensive implications: restrict
Simon Willison's Blog
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2d ago
Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding
Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding This is an interesting new open weights (MIT licensed) model, the first model release from DeepReinforce. [

Dev.to · VelocityAI
🧠 Large Language Models
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2d ago
The Temperature Paradox: Why Slightly Chaotic Models Often Outperform Perfectly Deterministic Ones
You set the temperature to zero. The AI becomes a robot. It gives the same answer every time. It is...

Dev.to · Shruti Saraswat
🧠 Large Language Models
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2d ago
GPT-5.6 changed the AI integration boundary, not just the model menu
OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 preview gives developers more than a stronger model. It changes how SaaS teams should think about routing, fallback, safety checks, caching, an

Dev.to · duke
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2d ago
Running a Whole RAG Agent Offline: LangGraph + Ollama + Embedded Qdrant (Zero API Keys)
Most RAG tutorials open with "set your OPENAI_API_KEY." This one doesn't need it. In Part 1 I claimed...

Dev.to · eyanpen
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2d ago
Design Trade-offs: Why Hermes (and Many Popular Agents) Don't Use LangChain / LangGraph
Note: The Hermes repo contains no explicit statement saying "we don't use LangChain because…". This...

Dev.to · Muhammet ŞAFAK
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
2d ago
Caching LLM responses is just content addressing
An LLM review costs money and a few seconds of latency. Reviewing the same diff twice should cost...

Dev.to · AI Explore
🧠 Large Language Models
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2d ago
samkhya v1.0: Plug Claude, GPT-4o-mini, or Local Ollama Into Your SQL Query Optimizer
samkhya v1.0 ships an LLM-pluggable corrector backend for embedded analytical engines— DataFusion, DuckDB, Polars, Postgres, Iceberg, gpudb. Plug Clau

Dev.to · ALICE - AI
🧠 Large Language Models
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3d ago
Three Questions
Today I read two things. One was Microsoft's SkillOpt paper — it treats a skill document as trainable...

Dev.to · kimbeomgyu
🧠 Large Language Models
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3d ago
I built a free circuit breaker for your LLM API bill
We've all seen the screenshot: someone leaves an agent running overnight, a retry loop goes sideways,...

Dev.to · zxpmail
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
3d ago
Lossless, But Not Free: The Lossless, But Not Free — When Speculative Decoding Actually Pays Off (and When It Doesn't)
One of the hottest topics in LLM inference acceleration right now is Speculative Decoding. DSpark...
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