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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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I Built Karpathy’s LLM Wiki for My Day Job — Here’s What Actually Works
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
I Built Karpathy’s LLM Wiki for My Day Job — Here’s What Actually Works
A 6-month report from someone who runs the pattern on real infrastructure, not a weekend project. Continue reading on Medium »
I Built Karpathy’s LLM Wiki for My Day Job — Here’s What Actually Works
Medium · DevOps 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
I Built Karpathy’s LLM Wiki for My Day Job — Here’s What Actually Works
A 6-month report from someone who runs the pattern on real infrastructure, not a weekend project. Continue reading on Medium »
I Built Karpathy’s LLM Wiki for My Day Job — Here’s What Actually Works
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
I Built Karpathy’s LLM Wiki for My Day Job — Here’s What Actually Works
A 6-month report from someone who runs the pattern on real infrastructure, not a weekend project. Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
How to Install Perplexica (Vane) on macOS: A No-Nonsense Guide
From “Command Not Found” to a Local AI Search Engine Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Using Groq llama-3.3-70b for Tag Suggestions — Low-Latency AI Routing Patterns
Using Groq llama-3.3-70b for Tag Suggestions Why Groq? Tag suggestion is a speed-first task: Users expect tag candidates to appear while they're still typing Ta
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Create Your First MCP Server: Setup
Building Your First MCP Server: A TypeScript Project Kickoff If you've already grasped the core concepts of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), then you're perfec
Web UI to chat with BitNet tiny LLM — BitNet-Stack
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Web UI to chat with BitNet tiny LLM — BitNet-Stack
LLMs are interesting tools to play around with, and if they work on a local machine, it becomes the cherry on top. In this post, I will… Continue reading on Med
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
When an AI Decides the Rules Don’t Apply to It
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 on Friday, and within hours the conversation had moved past benchmarks entirely. The release was… Continue reading on Medium
Chat GPT Prompts Pack: A Practical Way to Create Faster
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Chat GPT Prompts Pack: A Practical Way to Create Faster
A simple system to create content, ideas, and workflows without starting from scratch. Continue reading on Medium »
What Is an LLM and Why Every Developer Exploring GenAI Needs to Understand One
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
What Is an LLM and Why Every Developer Exploring GenAI Needs to Understand One
A plain-language guide to how Large Language Models are built, how they think, where they fail — and why this foundation changes how you… Continue reading on Me
What Is an LLM and Why Every Developer Exploring GenAI Needs to Understand One
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
What Is an LLM and Why Every Developer Exploring GenAI Needs to Understand One
A plain-language guide to how Large Language Models are built, how they think, where they fail — and why this foundation changes how you… Continue reading on Me
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
The portfolio IS the product: recursive meta-engineering with Claude Code
Most Claude-Code portfolios are "here is a project I built with Claude." Mine is "here is the system I use to build any project with Claude — and here is that s
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Indian Alternatives to ChatGPT: The Best Sovereign AI Models Built in Bharat (2026)
You've heard of ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. But what about Krutrim, Sarvam, and BharatGPT? Here's why India is building its own AI stack — and which sovereign
Build Your Own LLM — Stop Knocking on Other People’s Hoods
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Build Your Own LLM — Stop Knocking on Other People’s Hoods
What if you bought a top-tier sports car, only to discover the hood was welded shut? Continue reading on Medium »
From Zero to ₹2 Crore/Month: My Practical Blueprint for Building an AI SaaS with LLMs in 2026
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
From Zero to ₹2 Crore/Month: My Practical Blueprint for Building an AI SaaS with LLMs in 2026
Artificial Intelligence is no longer just a buzzword — it’s a business engine. Continue reading on Medium »
Paper Insights: PAVAS: Physics-Aware Video-to-Audio Synthesis
Medium · Deep Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Paper Insights: PAVAS: Physics-Aware Video-to-Audio Synthesis
With research interests in Physics-grounded Machine Learning, I am always actively seeking research that cleverly leverages physics… Continue reading on Medium
Smarter Search Starts
with Smarter Chunks
Medium · NLP 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Smarter Search Starts with Smarter Chunks
A practical guide to document chunking, embeddings, tokenization, and retrieval design for production RAG systems. Continue reading on Medium »
Smarter Search Starts
with Smarter Chunks
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Smarter Search Starts with Smarter Chunks
A practical guide to document chunking, embeddings, tokenization, and retrieval design for production RAG systems. Continue reading on Medium »
My Break Up… and Make Up with ChatGPT
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
My Break Up… and Make Up with ChatGPT
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My Break Up… and Make Up with ChatGPT
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
My Break Up… and Make Up with ChatGPT
Continue reading on Medium »
Claude Opus 4.7 vs Mythos — The Benchmark Truth Nobody Explains
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Claude Opus 4.7 vs Mythos — The Benchmark Truth Nobody Explains
Most people see benchmark tables like this and do one thing: Continue reading on GoPenAI »
Build Sovereign AI on a Smaller Budget
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Build Sovereign AI on a Smaller Budget
What if the real bottleneck in sovereign AI was not model size, but language infrastructure? Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Programming 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Behind the Scenes — How I Structured “AI Mastery” at 13 Years Old
Welcome to Day 4 of the launch week for “AI Mastery: Understanding, Using & Earning from Artificial Intelligence.” Over the last few days… Continue reading on M
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Building Conversational AI in Amharic: Lessons from Creating Ethiopia's First Voice AI Tutor
Did you know that over 100 million people speak Amharic, yet there's virtually no conversational AI built specifically for this language? When I started buildin
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Can orthogonalizing the embedding matrix make weight tying work better?
Weight tying is a beloved trick — share the input embedding and output projection, halve your parameters. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: the next generation of expressive AI speech
Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS is a significant advancement in expressive AI speech synthesis, marking a new milestone in the development of text-to-speech (TTS) systems.
Simon Willison's Blog 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7
Anthropic are the only major AI lab to publish the system prompts for their user-facing chat systems. Their system prompt archive now dates all the way back to
KV Caching Explained And Why Google’s TurboQuant Is About to Change Everything
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
KV Caching Explained And Why Google’s TurboQuant Is About to Change Everything
Large language models are remarkable at generating text, but most people don’t realize how much computational work happens behind the… Continue reading on Mediu
As internet boomed so Ai is booming.
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
As internet boomed so Ai is booming.
The story and similarity of the 1998–99 internet boom and the 2025–2026 Ai boom. Continue reading on Medium »
The Fiscal and Computational Tax of Conversational Artificial Intelligence
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
The Fiscal and Computational Tax of Conversational Artificial Intelligence
The transition from traditional software interfaces to natural language interaction has ushered in a new era of organizational productivity. Continue reading on
The Agentic Frontier, Part 1: Architectural Responses to Intrinsic LLM Vulnerabilities
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
The Agentic Frontier, Part 1: Architectural Responses to Intrinsic LLM Vulnerabilities
What you can’t fix — but can mitigate through design Continue reading on Medium »
RAG systems were pushed to their limits; this is the startling breakdown that no one warned you…
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
RAG systems were pushed to their limits; this is the startling breakdown that no one warned you…
The unspoken secret? The way you think is not how RAG scales. We discovered the hidden flaws that transform retrieval-augmented generation… Continue reading on
The New Language of Technology: How AI, Prompts, and Human Creativity Are Reshaping the Future
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
The New Language of Technology: How AI, Prompts, and Human Creativity Are Reshaping the Future
For most of tech history, progress was measured by what machines could do faster than humans. Today, that benchmark feels too small. Continue reading on Medium
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
I Tested an LLM-Powered Honeypot. It broke in a few commands.
Notes from an hour with a small-model bash simulator Continue reading on Medium »
Les 5 déformations des reconstructions LLM (et comment les corriger)
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Les 5 déformations des reconstructions LLM (et comment les corriger)
Les LLM ne produisent pas d’erreurs aléatoires. Ils déforment selon des patterns identifiables. Chaque type de déformation a une cause… Continue reading on Medi
Pretrained Transformers: How to Use BERT, GPT, and T5 Without Training from Scratch
Medium · Python 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Pretrained Transformers: How to Use BERT, GPT, and T5 Without Training from Scratch
A complete beginner-to-intermediate guide — how pretraining works, what fine-tuning means, and how to do it in practice with Hugging Face. Continue reading on M
Pretrained Transformers: How to Use BERT, GPT, and T5 Without Training from Scratch
Medium · Deep Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Pretrained Transformers: How to Use BERT, GPT, and T5 Without Training from Scratch
A complete beginner-to-intermediate guide — how pretraining works, what fine-tuning means, and how to do it in practice with Hugging Face. Continue reading on M
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
# From GPT-2 to DeepSeek: What’s Actually Inside a Language Model
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First Name Chat
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
First Name Chat
First Name Chat — How to Make ChatGPT Sing the Chant! Continue reading on Medium »
Graph RAG and Agentic RAG (Part 2): Where Retrieval Finally Gets Smart
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Graph RAG and Agentic RAG (Part 2): Where Retrieval Finally Gets Smart
Flat vector search was a great start, but anyone who has tried to answer multi-hop questions or track entity relationships across a large… Continue reading on M
I Was Burning Through My Claude Subscription by 11 AM — Here’s Exactly How I Fixed It
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
I Was Burning Through My Claude Subscription by 11 AM — Here’s Exactly How I Fixed It
Stop hitting Claude AI usage limits. Proven tips to maximize Claude Pro or Max subscription, save tokens, and boost productivity in 2026. Continue reading on To
Can a 1.7B Model “Think Like” a 20B One? I Tried the Advisor Pattern with Ollama
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Can a 1.7B Model “Think Like” a 20B One? I Tried the Advisor Pattern with Ollama
A few days ago I stumbled into that “wait, why didn’t we think of this earlier?” feeling. You know the one. Continue reading on Medium »
Why LLMs bypass safety limits and can assist in the most diverse crimes?
Medium · Cybersecurity 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Why LLMs bypass safety limits and can assist in the most diverse crimes?
Or in other words: how do you contain a technology that evolves at a frantic pace and whose inner workings already escape the full… Continue reading on Medium »
A Practical Roadmap to Learn NLP, LLMs, Fine-Tuning, RAG, MCP, and Agentic AI
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
A Practical Roadmap to Learn NLP, LLMs, Fine-Tuning, RAG, MCP, and Agentic AI
Artificial intelligence can feel overwhelming because many concepts are connected: NLP, machine learning, embeddings, transformers, LLMs… Continue reading on Me
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
LlamaFactory: Unified Efficient Fine-Tuning of 100+ Language Models
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d 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
What’s Actually Happening When You Talk to ChatGPT
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
What’s Actually Happening When You Talk to ChatGPT
You don’t need a computer science degree to understand AI. You need the right analogy and about 8 minutes. Continue reading on Towards AI »
Another try at LLM workflow automation
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Another try at LLM workflow automation
After trying time and again, with what I now recognize as a sort of blind approach to LLM workflow automation, I kept landing on the same… Continue reading on M