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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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ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
The cognitive companion: a lightweight parallel monitoring architecture for detecting and recovering from reasoning degradation in LLM agents
arXiv:2604.13759v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents on multi-step tasks suffer reasoning degradation, looping, drift, stuck states
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
GeoAgentBench: A Dynamic Execution Benchmark for Tool-Augmented Agents in Spatial Analysis
arXiv:2604.13888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) marks a paradigm shift
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Reward Design for Physical Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
arXiv:2604.13993v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical reasoning over visual inputs demands tight integration of visual perception, domain knowledge, and mult
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
TREX: Automating LLM Fine-tuning via Agent-Driven Tree-based Exploration
arXiv:2604.14116v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) have empowered AI research agents to perform isolated scientific tasks, autom
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
When Reasoning Models Hurt Behavioral Simulation: A Solver-Sampler Mismatch in Multi-Agent LLM Negotiation
arXiv:2604.11840v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used as agents in social, economic, and policy simulations. A common as
ArXiv cs.AI 🧠 Large Language Models 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
TableNet A Large-Scale Table Dataset with LLM-Powered Autonomous
arXiv:2604.13041v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Table Structure Recognition (TSR) requires the logical reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs) to ha
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Big Tech firms are accelerating AI investments and integration, while regulators and companies focus on safety and responsible adoption.
The AI landscape is experiencing unprecedented growth and transformation. This post delves into the key developments shaping the future of artificial intelligen
The Two Eval Loops Every Production LLM System Needs
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
The Two Eval Loops Every Production LLM System Needs
Why monitoring latency, error rates, uptime, tokens, and cost is not enough for LLM systems in production Continue reading on Medium »
The Thing I Didn’t Know About AI Companions Until a Non-English User Told Me
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
The Thing I Didn’t Know About AI Companions Until a Non-English User Told Me
I built this app in English. Continue reading on Medium »
Is Claude Mythos a Genuine Breakthrough or the Most Expensive PR Stunt in AI History?
Medium · Startup 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Is Claude Mythos a Genuine Breakthrough or the Most Expensive PR Stunt in AI History?
Anthropic has had a very interesting few weeks. Within seven days in late March, three things happened in sequence: an internal… Continue reading on Medium »
Build Your Own ChatGPT Replica in 45 Minutes: A Step-by-Step Guide
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Build Your Own ChatGPT Replica in 45 Minutes: A Step-by-Step Guide
Welcome to this guide on building your very own custom AI assistant! Continue reading on Medium »
Understanding Core LLM Concepts: A Beginner-Friendly Guide
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Understanding Core LLM Concepts: A Beginner-Friendly Guide
If you’ve recently started exploring AI, especially Large Language Models (LLMs), you’ve probably come across terms like tokens, context… Continue reading on Me
The Papers That Taught Machines to Comprehend
Medium · NLP 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
The Papers That Taught Machines to Comprehend
And why the future is essentially, multimodal. Continue reading on Medium »
The Papers That Taught Machines to Comprehend
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
The Papers That Taught Machines to Comprehend
And why the future is essentially, multimodal. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Time Relative to Clock Speed & Persistent AI
What Happens If We Build a Persistent AI Mind? Einstein once said something like: two minutes with a pretty girl feels like nothing, but two minutes with your h
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
What I Learned Building an MCP Server for a 130K-Node Knowledge Graph
I built a Model Context Protocol server that lets Claude query a knowledge graph with 130,000+ nodes. Here's what I learned — the parts the tutorials skip. The
The Asymmetric Efficiency Manifesto: Why Vector RAG is a Dead End for Corporate Memory
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
The Asymmetric Efficiency Manifesto: Why Vector RAG is a Dead End for Corporate Memory
How we shattered the SOTA memory benchmarks by ditching stochastic vectors for a deterministic graph. Continue reading on Medium »
Part 1: The Custodial Shift — The Knowledge Custodian
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Part 1: The Custodial Shift — The Knowledge Custodian
AI is not replacing experts, but it is transforming what it means to be one. Are we ready for this? Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
What happens when AI-generated outputs become the training data for future AI systems?
This is no longer a theoretical concern. With the explosion of AI-generated content — text, code, images, decisions, and logs — there is… Continue reading on Me
Microsoft’s New Method Cuts Reasoning Model Memory by 3x — Here’s How It Actually Works
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Microsoft’s New Method Cuts Reasoning Model Memory by 3x — Here’s How It Actually Works
MEMENTO: Teaching LLMs to take notes on their own thinking Continue reading on Towards AI »
How AI gets smarter when you push back
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
How AI gets smarter when you push back
Every time you correct an AI output, you’re doing something valuable. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Why Your SaaS Needs llms.txt: A Practical Guide with Real Traffic Data
If you run a SaaS or any product with a public website, there is a small text file you should ship this week. It costs nothing, takes an hour, and — in my case
7 ChatGPT Prompts So Good They Feel Illegal to Know
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
7 ChatGPT Prompts So Good They Feel Illegal to Know
I’ve tested hundreds. These 7 changed how I work forever. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Big Tech firms are accelerating AI investments and integration, while regulators and companies focus on safety and responsible adoption.
The AI landscape is experiencing unprecedented growth and transformation. This post delves into the key developments shaping the future of artificial intelligen
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Local Inference Breakthrough: 1-bit Bonsai WebGPU, Ollama Multi-Agent & Gemma4 26B
Local Inference Breakthrough: 1-bit Bonsai WebGPU, Ollama Multi-Agent & Gemma4 26B Today's Highlights Today's highlights feature a 1-bit Bonsai model runnin
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Cloud AI APIs vs. Self-Hosted LLMs: When an Old Phone Beats GPT-4
A Reddit post recently caught my eye — someone turned a Xiaomi 12 Pro into a 24/7 headless AI server running Ollama with a quantized Gemma model on a Snapdragon
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
The first time my AI bill scared me into building TokenBar
A few months ago I opened my AI bill and did the dumb double-take every solo dev knows. Not because I had a huge team. Because the cost was invisible while I wa
Synthetic Identity Engineering: The Missing Layer in AI Training Data
Medium · NLP 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Synthetic Identity Engineering: The Missing Layer in AI Training Data
There’s a concept we’ve started using internally that doesn’t seem to exist yet in the standard vocabulary of AI development. Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The Tool and the Thinking — on LLMs, merit, and what we owe the work
Software development and philosophy: more in common than you think Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
I Spent 40 Hours Building AI Prompts for Competitive Intelligence — Here's What Actually Works
I Spent 40 Hours Building AI Prompts for Competitive Intelligence — Here's What Actually Works I run competitive intelligence for SaaS founders. Every week I pr
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Why We Built AutoBot: The WordPress of AI
Three years ago I started building AutoBot because I was tired of renting my own intelligence. Every AI tool I used followed the same playbook: send your data t
The Art of Guessing Fast: Speculative Decoding & Speculative Speculative Decoding
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The Art of Guessing Fast: Speculative Decoding & Speculative Speculative Decoding
From tokens to Saguaro, a beginner-to-expert guide to the most clever inference trick in LLMs right now ; Based on: Leviathan et al. Continue reading on Medium
Observations of Bing and Google Bots in Sparse Semantic Domains
Medium · Deep Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Observations of Bing and Google Bots in Sparse Semantic Domains
By Mitchell D. McPhetridge Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Big Tech firms are accelerating AI investments and integration, while regulators and companies focus on safety and responsible adoption.
The AI landscape is experiencing unprecedented growth and transformation. This post delves into the key developments shaping the future of artificial intelligen
Obsidian, Wikis, and Agentic RAG: Which Knowledge Base Gives You the Edge?
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Obsidian, Wikis, and Agentic RAG: Which Knowledge Base Gives You the Edge?
The era of “just chunk it and dump it into a vector database” is over. Continue reading on Medium »
The AI We Deserve: Claude Saying “No” Is the Most Human Thing a Machine Has Ever Done
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The AI We Deserve: Claude Saying “No” Is the Most Human Thing a Machine Has Ever Done
What we got in Claude is an LLM that, in some functional sense, developed a point of view. Continue reading on Write A Catalyst »
Deep Dive into LangChain: Architecture, Components, and Building LLM Applications
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Deep Dive into LangChain: Architecture, Components, and Building LLM Applications
1. Introduction to LangChain Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · NLP 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
I Tested 3 Biases in LLM-as-a-Judge. The Confidence Bias Result Was Alarming.
When building an AI evaluation pipeline, most practitioners focus on whether the judge model is accurate. Few ask whether it is fair. Continue reading on Medium
Low-Resource Code Generation with Long-Context LLM and Retrieval Augmented Retrieval
Medium · RAG 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Low-Resource Code Generation with Long-Context LLM and Retrieval Augmented Retrieval
By: Wilton Lam Continue reading on Medium »
The Most Interesting Ways People Use AI
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The Most Interesting Ways People Use AI
How AI is Shaping Society — Sociology and Psychology Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Building a Voice-Controlled AI Agent Architecture and Challenges
How I built an end-to-end voice command system using Groq, Llama 3.3, and mem0 — from speech to action in under 2 seconds. Continue reading on Medium »
From Development to Production: Why LLM Evaluations & Observability Matter
Part 1: The mindset…
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
From Development to Production: Why LLM Evaluations & Observability Matter Part 1: The mindset…
Before I was a software engineer, I was a nurse, pre- and post-operative cardiac, internal medicine, and emergency. In those settings, you… Continue reading on
Claude Changes Everything , And it’s Dangerous .
Medium · Deep Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Claude Changes Everything , And it’s Dangerous .
Mythos is dangerous. Continue reading on Medium »
The Register 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Bad teacher bots can leave hidden marks on model students
Study finds LLMs will smuggle biases into others even if they're scrubbed from training data New research warns about the dangers of teaching LLMs on the output
AI Fluency for Beginners: What I Learned from Anthropic’s Course
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
AI Fluency for Beginners: What I Learned from Anthropic’s Course
A casual, funny, no‑jargon walkthrough of the AI‑fluency lessons that finally made AI make sense. Continue reading on Medium »
Has AI Come to Us, or Have We Gone to AI?
Medium · Programming 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Has AI Come to Us, or Have We Gone to AI?
Has artificial intelligence come to us, or have we gone to AI? Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
LangChain Deep Dive: Building Modular LLM Applications with Python
## 1. Introduction to LangChain Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Data Science 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
LangChain Deep Dive: Building Modular LLM Applications with Python
## 1. Introduction to LangChain Continue reading on Medium »