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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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OpenAI-o1 Consciousness: The Functionalist & IIT Argument
Hackernoon 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
OpenAI-o1 Consciousness: The Functionalist & IIT Argument
Explore the theoretical grounds for OpenAI-o1 consciousness. Analyzing how functionalism, Integrated Information Theory (IIT), and the Free Energy Principle (FE
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
How Signal-Based Routing Actually Works (and the 3 Times It Broke)
You Shouldn't Have to Tell the AI Who to Be Last week I wrote about typing "act as a senior architect" 47 times per week. The friction of manually assigning rol
AI Consciousness Research: From OpenAI-o1 to Active Inference
Hackernoon 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
AI Consciousness Research: From OpenAI-o1 to Active Inference
Review the 2026 state of AI consciousness research. Learn how OpenAI-o1's architecture relates to hippocampal formation, active inference, and functionalist the
Can Machines Be Creative? One Compelling Answer
Forbes Innovation 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Can Machines Be Creative? One Compelling Answer
AI evolves toward creative, swarm intelligence systems, challenging definitions of creativity, discovery, and human uniqueness.
The Verge 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Bluesky’s new app is an AI for customizing your feed
The latest app from the team behind Bluesky is Attie, an AI assistant that lets you build your own algorithm. At the Atmosphere conference, Bluesky's former CEO
Why Integrating AI in High-Frequency Trading Is Harder Than Everyone Thinks
Hackernoon 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Why Integrating AI in High-Frequency Trading Is Harder Than Everyone Thinks
The hardest part of AI in high-frequency trading is not the AI, it is the constraints. Large language models introduce inference latency measured in millisecond
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Training Qwen3-32B (FP16) on a GTX 1060 6GB No Cloud, No Tricks
Training Qwen3-32B on a GTX 1060 6GB — No Cloud, No Tricks Last week I trained a 32-billion parameter model on a GPU that costs $150 on eBay. Not inference. Not
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
LangChain.js Has a Free AI Framework: Build LLM-Powered Apps With Chains, Agents, and RAG in TypeScript
You want to build an AI app that searches your documents, calls APIs, and reasons through multi-step problems. The OpenAI SDK gives you chat completions. But ch
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Vercel AI SDK Has a Free AI Toolkit: Stream LLM Responses, Build Chatbots, and Integrate Any AI Model in React
Building an AI chatbot means: set up OpenAI client, handle streaming, parse SSE events, manage conversation state, display tokens as they arrive, handle errors,
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
I Built a Human-in-the-Loop SDK Because My AI Spent $5K Guessing
I Built a Human-in-the-Loop SDK Because My AI Spent $5K Guessing A buddy at Meta texted me last week: "Dude. I spent $5K on tokens this week. We had a massive p
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
From Prompt Engineer to Harness Engineer: Three Evolutions in AI Collaboration
Preface Just got back from GDPS 2026 (Global Developer Pioneer Summit) in Shanghai, where I picked up a new term: "Harness Engineer." After sitting through the
Cut or Untangle? The Truth About AI
Hackernoon 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Cut or Untangle? The Truth About AI
Futurists and science fiction writers worry about the dangers of superintelligence. The key question here is not "how intelligent is it?" but "what does it want
Towards Data Science 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Self-Healing Neural Networks in PyTorch: Fix Model Drift in Real Time Without Retraining
What happens when your production model drifts and retraining isn’t an option? This article shows how a self-healing neural network detects drift, adapts in rea
Nvidia Follows Google's Playbook With $20 Billion Groq Bet
Forbes Innovation 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Nvidia Follows Google's Playbook With $20 Billion Groq Bet
Nvidia's $20B Groq deal and Groq 3 LPU debut at GTC 2026 signal a shift from GPU-only inference to heterogeneous AI computing architectures.
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Best Free AI Tools for Beginners in 2026 — E-Gal's No-BS Guide 🔥✨
By E-Gal | Your Fave Tech Gyaru Breaking Down the Future 💅 <img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2C
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Research with AI: primary sources, certainty labeling and counter-argumentation
AI says yes to everything. It's convenient when you want to be right. You ask a leading question, it confirms your thesis, and you walk away convinced you've do
Wombat’s New Keyboard Comes With One-Key Access To Popular AI Tools
Forbes Innovation 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Wombat’s New Keyboard Comes With One-Key Access To Popular AI Tools
This new keyboard from Wombat combines the precision of a mechanical design with one-touch access to popular AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot and Claude.
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
I built a 126K-line Android app with AI — here is the workflow that actually works
Most developers trying AI coding tools hit the same wall. They open a chat, type "build me a todo app," get something that looks right, and then spend 3 hours f
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Attie.ai Revolution
Introduction to Attie.ai Attie.ai is a cutting-edge AI company that has been making waves in the tech industry with its groundbreaking approach to machine learn
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How to Add Persistent Memory to Any AI Agent (Step-by-Step)
Your agent works perfectly on day one. By day three, it's asking the same questions it already answered. By week two, it contradicts decisions it made last Tues
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
How I Added Voice-Based AI Personalization Two Days Before Launch
Since October, TAMSIV's voice AI understood commands perfectly. "Create a task", "add a memo", "check my schedule" — all worked. But the AI didn't know the user
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
30% of Developers Think AI Will Replace Them
A web developer with five years of experience posted one line on Reddit after trying the latest Claude Max : "I feel increasingly irrelevant." The thread explod
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
ChemBERTa-2: Towards Chemical Foundation Models
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Everyone Claims Self-Evolving AI — Here's What's Missing
A new breed of AI tools calls itself "self-evolving." The pitch is appealing: use the system, and it gets smarter over time. No manual retraining, no stale inde
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
My Next Step in AI: Studying for the AWS Generative AI Developer Professional Certification
Why now? Over the past year, I've had the chance to build and experiment with several AI-based applications through hackathons, side projects and other hands-on
ZDNet 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Switching to Claude? Here's how to take your ChatGPT memories with you
A new Claude AI feature now lets you copy your memories and preferences from another AI so making the change is easier.
ZDNet 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
5 reasons you should be more tight-lipped with your chatbot (and how to fix past mistakes)
Your casual conversations with AI chatbots could have some major privacy implications.
OpenAI-o1 & AI Consciousness: Defining Machine Sentience in 2026
Hackernoon 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
OpenAI-o1 & AI Consciousness: Defining Machine Sentience in 2026
Unpack the foundational definitions of AI consciousness, subjective experience, and functionalist theory. See how OpenAI-o1’s internal states bridge the gap bet
TechCrunch AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Stanford study outlines dangers of asking AI chatbots for personal advice
While there’s been plenty of debate about AI sycophancy, a new study by Stanford computer scientists attempts to measure how harmful that tendency might be.
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
My AI Assistant Had Amnesia. So I Built It a Memory System.
My AI Assistant Had Amnesia. So I Built It a Memory System. I manage food delivery operations in Qatar. For the past six months, I've been running an AI assista
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Shuffle Transformer: Rethinking Spatial Shuffle for Vision Transformer
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
The 30 Best AI Prompts for Operations & Project Managers
If you run operations or manage projects, you're spending a lot of time on things that should take minutes. Status reports. Risk summaries. Meeting agendas. Esc
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Cryptographic Identity Systems for Auditing Autonomous AI Agents
If you’ve ever asked, “Which agent actually made this change?” and realized your logs only say service-account-prod or automation-bot , you’ve already hit the c
The Phenomenology of Machine: OpenAI-o1 and AI Consciousness
Hackernoon 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
The Phenomenology of Machine: OpenAI-o1 and AI Consciousness
Explore the functionalist argument for OpenAI-o1 sentience. Learn how RLHF and reasoning tokens create consciousness-like states through qualia alignment and ac
All 11 xAI co-founders have now reportedly left Elon Musk’s AI company
The Next Web AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
All 11 xAI co-founders have now reportedly left Elon Musk’s AI company
Every co-founder Elon Musk recruited to build xAI has now reportedly left the company. Manuel Kroiss, who led the pretraining team, told people this month that
Kandou AI raises $225 million to bet that copper can outlast the optical revolution
The Next Web AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Kandou AI raises $225 million to bet that copper can outlast the optical revolution
Kandou AI, a Swiss semiconductor company that builds chip-to-chip interconnect technology, has raised $225 million in what it calls a Series A round, led by Mav
Working On Data Center Power
Forbes Innovation 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Working On Data Center Power
AI’s surging power demands are driving urgent innovation in data center efficiency, transmission, and decarbonization.
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Reading list (17th to 28th March)
These are the current online posts that I enjoyed reading and made me think. AI Scion is an experimental multi-agent orchestration testbed designed to manage co
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Meet Your New AI-Powered Senior DBA: Bridging the Gap Between Metadata and Architectural Excellence
Database schemas often become "black boxes" over time. They accumulate technical debt, hidden bottlenecks, and security vulnerabilities that even seasoned devel
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Ollama Has a Free API — Run LLMs Locally with One Command
TL;DR Ollama lets you run large language models locally on your machine. One command to download and run Llama 3, Mistral, Gemma, Phi, and 100+ models — with an
The Verge 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Suno leans into customization with v5.5
Suno just released one of its biggest updates yet with v5.5 of its AI music model. Where previous updates focused mostly on improving fidelity and creating more
TechCrunch AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Anthropic’s Claude popularity with paying consumers is skyrocketing
Estimates for total Claude consumer users are all over the map (we've seen figures ranging from 18 million to 30 million). Anthropic hasn't disclosed this data,
80,000 Claude Users Reveal AI’s Promise And Folly
Forbes Innovation 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
80,000 Claude Users Reveal AI’s Promise And Folly
Anthropic’s study of 80,000 Claude users shows AI moving from productivity into healthcare, education, and judgment, revealing AI's next markets and its deepest
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Hot Take: Why Deterministic AI Pipelines Are the Future — and How to Build One for $0.003
Hot Take: Why Deterministic AI Pipelines Are the Future — and How to Build One for $0.003 Research sources: Towards AI (Mar 2026), arXiv:2603.03018, PyPI algite
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Claude AI for Rp32,000/month — why Indonesian developers are switching from ChatGPT
Claude AI for Rp32,000/month — why Indonesian developers are switching from ChatGPT ChatGPT costs $20/month. In Indonesia, that's Rp320,000+ — for a lot of deve
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
The AI CFO Is Here: Build Your Own Financial Intelligence Agent with NexaAPI
CFO-level AI agents are having a moment. The trend: LLMs that don't just answer financial questions but actively monitor, analyze, and flag issues across your e
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
PLDR-LLM: The AI Reasoning Breakthrough That Replaces Its Own Neural Network at Inference
A paper just dropped that's making waves in the ML community: PLDR-LLMs Reason at Self-Organized Criticality (OpenReview, 2026). The core claim is wild: these m
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
GPT4All Has a Free API — Run AI Models on Your Laptop
GPT4All lets you run LLMs locally on consumer hardware. No GPU required, no internet needed, completely private. Desktop app + Python API. What Is GPT4All? GPT4