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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
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Call LLM APIs with function/tool use
Fine-tuning LLMs
advanced
Prepare fine-tuning datasets
Multimodal LLMs
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Use GPT-4V / Claude Vision for image understanding

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Mastering ChatGPT: A Complete Guide to Using AI Like a Professional.
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Mastering ChatGPT: A Complete Guide to Using AI Like a Professional.
How to move from casual user to skilled operator it already has. The question now is whether you will be someone who knows how to use it… Continue reading on Me
Mastering ChatGPT: A Complete Guide to Using AI Like a Professional.
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Mastering ChatGPT: A Complete Guide to Using AI Like a Professional.
How to move from casual user to skilled operator it already has. The question now is whether you will be someone who knows how to use it… Continue reading on Me
ChatGPT Can Recite Physics. It Has No Idea How Physics Works.
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
ChatGPT Can Recite Physics. It Has No Idea How Physics Works.
The fundamental difference between language models and world models — and why it matters more than any benchmark. Continue reading on Predict »
ChatGPT Can Recite Physics. It Has No Idea How Physics Works.
Medium · Deep Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
ChatGPT Can Recite Physics. It Has No Idea How Physics Works.
The fundamental difference between language models and world models — and why it matters more than any benchmark. Continue reading on Predict »
Ollama: How to Run Powerful AI Models on Your Own Machine (And Why You’d Want To)
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Ollama: How to Run Powerful AI Models on Your Own Machine (And Why You’d Want To)
Every query you send to ChatGPT or Claude leaves your computer. Ollama keeps everything local, and in 2026, the tradeoffs finally tip in… Continue reading on Me
Implementing DeepSeek-V2’s Multi-Head Latent Attention (MLA) from Scratch in PyTorch — Part III…
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Implementing DeepSeek-V2’s Multi-Head Latent Attention (MLA) from Scratch in PyTorch — Part III…
This is the third and final part of my “Implementing DeepSeek-V2 MLA from scratch” series, a hands-on mini-course that will guide you… Continue reading on Mediu
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Understanding Transformers Part 6: Calculating Similarity Between Queries and Keys
In the previous article , we explored the concepts of Queries and Keys. Now we will see how to calculate the similiarities Calculating Similarity Using Dot Prod
LangChain Explained: From Core Concepts to Production-Ready AI Agents (Hands-On with Groq)
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
LangChain Explained: From Core Concepts to Production-Ready AI Agents (Hands-On with Groq)
Introduction to LangChain Continue reading on Medium »
Three stories about AI, philosophy, and why naming things might be the hardest problem in computer…
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Three stories about AI, philosophy, and why naming things might be the hardest problem in computer…
”The thought process and the instructions are more valuable than the immediate result.” Continue reading on Medium »
LangChain Explained: Architecture, Components, Chains, Agents, Memory and Real-World Python…
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
LangChain Explained: Architecture, Components, Chains, Agents, Memory and Real-World Python…
Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT can generate impressive responses, but building real-world AI applications requires more than just… Continue reading on Me
LangChain Explained: Architecture, Components, Chains, Agents, Memory and Real-World Python…
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
LangChain Explained: Architecture, Components, Chains, Agents, Memory and Real-World Python…
Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT can generate impressive responses, but building real-world AI applications requires more than just… Continue reading on Me
LangChain Explained: Architecture, Components, Chains, Agents, Memory and Real-World Python…
Medium · Python 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
LangChain Explained: Architecture, Components, Chains, Agents, Memory and Real-World Python…
Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT can generate impressive responses, but building real-world AI applications requires more than just… Continue reading on Me
Journey — GenAI Voicebot (Part 4)
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Journey — GenAI Voicebot (Part 4)
Production Learnings & Cost Trade-offs Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w 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
NeuroLearn
Dev.to · Amrutha 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
NeuroLearn
Why I used Neo4j and Hindsight instead of a bigger prompt Every AI tutor I had encountered before...
What Karpathy's LLM Wiki Is Missing (And How to Fix It)
Dev.to · Penfield 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
What Karpathy's LLM Wiki Is Missing (And How to Fix It)
Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern went viral this month. 5,000+ stars, 3,700 forks, dozens of...
Building a RAG Chatbot with Supabase: End-to-End Tutorial
Dev.to · Icarax 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Building a RAG Chatbot with Supabase: End-to-End Tutorial
Building a RAG Chatbot with Supabase: End-to-End Tutorial Embracing the Future of...
Measuring What Your AI Learned: Epistemic Vectors in Practice
Dev.to · David Van Assche (S.L) 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Measuring What Your AI Learned: Epistemic Vectors in Practice
Part 2 of the Epistemic AI series. In Part 1, we defined the problem: AI tools don't track what they...
Voice-to-Action: A Local AI Agent with Llama 3.2 and Groq
Dev.to · Rupali Raj 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Voice-to-Action: A Local AI Agent with Llama 3.2 and Groq
Purpose I built this project to explore the intersection of voice interfaces and local system...
LangChain Explained : Building Modular LLM Applications with Python (Beginner to Advanced Guide)
Medium · Python 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
LangChain Explained : Building Modular LLM Applications with Python (Beginner to Advanced Guide)
Introduction Continue reading on Medium »
IQ test for AI models (ARC benchmark)
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
IQ test for AI models (ARC benchmark)
Before saying AI is replacing humans, maybe we should first ask a simpler question: Continue reading on NORMA »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Building a Voice-Controlled Local AI Agent with Whisper, LLaMA 3 and Streamlit
Introduction EchoMemo is a Voice Controlled Local AI Agent that runs entirely on your local machine. The user is required to give a command, either through thei
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Debugging a Ghost Outrage With an Agent That Actually Remembers
When Your Chatbot Finally Stops Asking Who You Are The first time a user complained that KAIRO kept forgetting their name between sessions, I brushed it off. Th
AWS Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to build effective reward functions with AWS Lambda for Amazon Nova model customization
This post demonstrates how Lambda enables scalable, cost-effective reward functions for Amazon Nova customization. You'll learn to choose between Reinforcement
MIT Technology Review 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why opinion on AI is so divided
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. In an industry that do
Deep Technical Guide to LangChain: Building Modular LLM Applications
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Deep Technical Guide to LangChain: Building Modular LLM Applications
Introduction to LangChain Continue reading on Medium »
A Comparison of Data Formats for LLMs: Why Markdown Is King
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
A Comparison of Data Formats for LLMs: Why Markdown Is King
LLMs are fundamentally pattern-matching engines trained on massive corpora of human-readable text. The critical insight is that Markdown… Continue reading on Me
Stop doing unscoped embeddings: 7 reasons relevance decays
Medium · RAG 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Stop doing unscoped embeddings: 7 reasons relevance decays
Why broad, context-free embedding pipelines quietly poison retrieval quality — and what to do instead. Continue reading on Medium »
I cloned JFK’s voice using AI for $2. Here is what surprised me…
Medium · Python 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I cloned JFK’s voice using AI for $2. Here is what surprised me…
*All generated recordings can be found in my full blog post at the bottom… Continue reading on Level Up Coding »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Building a Voice-Controlled Local AI Agent with LangGraph and Mem0
I wanted to work with Local AI Agents; it turned to be one of the more fun projects I've worked on, and a valuable primer on TUI UI/UX. Why I Built This The goa
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
We built a firewall for LLM apps
Web apps have WAFs. APIs have rate limiters and auth layers. LLM apps? Most of them have nothing between the user and the model. If you're shipping LLM features
Resume tokens and last-event IDs for LLM streaming: How they work & what they cost to build
Dev.to · Ably Blog 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Resume tokens and last-event IDs for LLM streaming: How they work & what they cost to build
When an AI response reaches token 150 and the connection drops, most implementations have one answer:...
From PDF to Q&A: Building the RAG Pipeline Behind LongTerMemory
Medium · RAG 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
From PDF to Q&A: Building the RAG Pipeline Behind LongTerMemory
Turning a user-uploaded PDF into a set of high-quality, spaced-repetition-ready Q&A pairs sounds straightforward until you actually build… Continue reading on M
I Built a Fully Autonomous AI Fitness Coach with MCP, RAG, LangChain & Apple Health — Here’s…
Medium · Python 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Built a Fully Autonomous AI Fitness Coach with MCP, RAG, LangChain & Apple Health — Here’s…
How I went from a simple chatbot idea to a multi-platform AI agent that tracks your nutrition, logs your workouts from Apple Health, and… Continue reading on Me
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Private RAG: Sell Your Knowledge to AI Agents
Something quietly significant is happening at the intersection of retrieval-augmented generation and agent commerce: knowledge itself is becoming a product that
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Invisible Stylist: How Apple’s AI Glasses Will Define 2026 Fashion
Apple’s AI glasses transform fashion from a search problem into a perception problem. By 2026, the convergence of spatial computing and multimodal large languag
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How NLP Discovers That a “SEAT” Isn’t Always for Sitting
Disclaimer: The use case, the data, and the architecture presented in this article are fictional and entirely hypothetical. This is a… Continue reading on Mediu
Medium · NLP 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How NLP Discovers That a “SEAT” Isn’t Always for Sitting
Disclaimer: The use case, the data, and the architecture presented in this article are fictional and entirely hypothetical. This is a… Continue reading on Mediu
From Prompts to Systems: A Deep Dive into LangChain for Building LLM Applications
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
From Prompts to Systems: A Deep Dive into LangChain for Building LLM Applications
Most beginners start by writing prompts. But real-world AI applications require something more powerful — systems. Continue reading on Medium »
From Prompts to Systems: A Deep Dive into LangChain for Building LLM Applications
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
From Prompts to Systems: A Deep Dive into LangChain for Building LLM Applications
Most beginners start by writing prompts. But real-world AI applications require something more powerful — systems. Continue reading on Medium »
LangChain Deep Dive: Building Production-Ready LLM Applications with Chains, Agents, and Memory
Medium · Python 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
LangChain Deep Dive: Building Production-Ready LLM Applications with Chains, Agents, and Memory
1. Introduction to LangChain Continue reading on Medium »
Anthropic’s Glasswing Project with Mythos — Weekly AI Newsletter (April 13th 2026)
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Anthropic’s Glasswing Project with Mythos — Weekly AI Newsletter (April 13th 2026)
Also: Google releases Gemma 4 Continue reading on Generative AI »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI Prompts for Creators: The Complete Guide to Prompt Engineering for Maximum Results
Why Prompt Engineering Matters Good prompt = 30-second response with 90% of what you need Bad prompt = 5-minute iteration loop, 60% of what you need That differ
How to Learn AI from Scratch (Best Platforms, Courses & Communities)
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to Learn AI from Scratch (Best Platforms, Courses & Communities)
Winter is here, the year is ending — and it’s the perfect time to upgrade your skills. If you’ve been thinking about switching careers or… Continue reading on M
Inside AI: How Machines Read and Analyze Content
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Inside AI: How Machines Read and Analyze Content
There has been a tremendous advancement of AI within the last couple of decades from rule-based machines to those that can read… Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Cybersecurity 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
LLM Injection + Unlimited Approval + RCE: The Coinbase AgentKit Attack Chain
A prompt injection that crosses three trust boundaries — and why Coinbase called it Medium Continue reading on Medium »
Adam’s Law: The Hidden Textual Frequency Cheat Code for LLMs
Medium · Data Science 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Adam’s Law: The Hidden Textual Frequency Cheat Code for LLMs
Why changing your prompt’s vocabulary to high-frequency words can drastically boost model accuracy, reasoning, and translation. Continue reading on Towards Dev
Adam’s Law: The Hidden Textual Frequency Cheat Code for LLMs
Medium · Deep Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Adam’s Law: The Hidden Textual Frequency Cheat Code for LLMs
Why changing your prompt’s vocabulary to high-frequency words can drastically boost model accuracy, reasoning, and translation. Continue reading on Towards Dev