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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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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
Five things we learned trimming LibreChat’s LLM bill
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Five things we learned trimming LibreChat’s LLM bill
The project I am working on is LibreChat, hooked up to a handful of MCP servers (Jira, Confluence, Slack, and so on). Many colleagues like… Continue reading on
Quantum Leaps and AI Breakthroughs : What April 2026 Means for Your Future
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Quantum Leaps and AI Breakthroughs : What April 2026 Means for Your Future
This April 18, 2026, we stand on the brink of an extraordinary technological revolution. From groundbreaking advancements in quantum… Continue reading on Medium
Understanding Sarcasm in Generative AI Models: How ChatGPT Interprets Human Intent
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Understanding Sarcasm in Generative AI Models: How ChatGPT Interprets Human Intent
A technical exploration of sarcasm detection using transformers, contextual embeddings, and large language models. Continue reading on Medium »
Understanding Sarcasm in Generative AI Models: How ChatGPT Interprets Human Intent
Medium · Deep Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Understanding Sarcasm in Generative AI Models: How ChatGPT Interprets Human Intent
A technical exploration of sarcasm detection using transformers, contextual embeddings, and large language models. Continue reading on Medium »
Understanding Sarcasm in Generative AI Models: How ChatGPT Interprets Human Intent
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Understanding Sarcasm in Generative AI Models: How ChatGPT Interprets Human Intent
A technical exploration of sarcasm detection using transformers, contextual embeddings, and large language models. Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Where AI Is Headed: Components, Jobs, and Skills You Can’t Ignore
AI is no longer a side experiment, a sandbox project, or something “nice to have.” It’s quietly becoming the backbone of how modern… Continue reading on Medium
Production voice AI is an orchestration problem
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Production voice AI is an orchestration problem
Lessons from building a clinical voice agent that handled thousands of patients. Continue reading on Medium »
Transformer models for Urdu Language
Medium · NLP 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Transformer models for Urdu Language
Urdu is spoken by 175 millions of people worldwide and carries rich cultural, literary, and historical importance. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
How to structure JSON for LLMs (and stop wasting tokens)
Most developers treat JSON as an afterthought when building LLM-powered apps. They dump raw API responses into prompts and wonder why the model hallucinates, mi
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
llm-anthropic 0.25 Adds Opus 4.7 with xhigh Thinking Effort — Here's How
Update to llm-anthropic 0.25 to access Claude Opus 4.7 with xhigh thinking_effort for tackling your most challenging code problems. What Changed — llm-anthropic
From Watching Tutorials to Building a Live AI System — My Google Gen AI Academy Story
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
From Watching Tutorials to Building a Live AI System — My Google Gen AI Academy Story
How a hackathon changed everything I thought I knew about myself Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Python 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Beyond Scrapy: Why Crawl4AI is the New Standard for AI Data Pipelines in 2026
Moving from rigid HTML selectors to semantic, LLM-ready extraction. Continue reading on Medium »
Sovereign LLM might be a Red Herring
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Sovereign LLM might be a Red Herring
Photo by RODOLFO BARRETTO on Unsplash Continue reading on Medium »
Sovereign LLM might be a Red Herring
Medium · Data Science 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Sovereign LLM might be a Red Herring
Photo by RODOLFO BARRETTO on Unsplash Continue reading on Medium »
The AI Gold Rush of 2026: Your 3-Month Blueprint to a $180K+ Career
Medium · Data Science 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
The AI Gold Rush of 2026: Your 3-Month Blueprint to a $180K+ Career
The AI boom isn’t a future prediction — it is our current reality. As we move further into 2026, the gap between the demand for AI talent… Continue reading on M
The AI Gold Rush of 2026: Your 3-Month Blueprint to a $180K+ Career
Medium · Python 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
The AI Gold Rush of 2026: Your 3-Month Blueprint to a $180K+ Career
The AI boom isn’t a future prediction — it is our current reality. As we move further into 2026, the gap between the demand for AI talent… Continue reading on M
Positron Assistant: How to Configure the AI Assistant and Comparing It To Claude, ChatGPT, and…
Medium · Data Science 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Positron Assistant: How to Configure the AI Assistant and Comparing It To Claude, ChatGPT, and…
Learn how an AI assistant infuses AI into the IDE environment — and what this means for your data analysis choices Continue reading on Medium »
The Real Story Behind Claude Opus 4.7: Why “Literal” AI is the New Frontier for Builders
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
The Real Story Behind Claude Opus 4.7: Why “Literal” AI is the New Frontier for Builders
Anthropic’s latest release trades loose generalization for predictable execution, and it’s about to break your lazy prompts. Continue reading on Towards AI »
How Leading AI Apps Implement Inline Citations: What Reverse-Engineering ChatGPT and Claude…
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
How Leading AI Apps Implement Inline Citations: What Reverse-Engineering ChatGPT and Claude…
In Part 1, I dissected how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity generate inline citations, and ended with a prompt that gets models to… Continue reading on M
We Are Looking at AI All Wrong
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
We Are Looking at AI All Wrong
AI conversations are everywhere, with good reason. Influencers, experts and policy makers alike are wading through the extreme complexity… Continue reading on M
Forecasting with Augmented Dynamic Adaptive Model, Language Modeling from Scratch | Issue 84
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Forecasting with Augmented Dynamic Adaptive Model, Language Modeling from Scratch | Issue 84
A weekly curated update on data science and engineering topics and resources. Continue reading on Medium »
All you need to know about BitNet
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
All you need to know about BitNet
BitNet is a neural network framework where weights are constrained to {-1,0,1} instead of storing weights in floating point numebrs like… Continue reading on Me
The Inference Gap: How to Make Large Language Models Fast Enough to Matter
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
The Inference Gap: How to Make Large Language Models Fast Enough to Matter
Training a powerful model is only half the story. The real engineering challenge is serving it at scale — without burning your GPU budget… Continue reading on M
ChatGPT to Gemini Issues: Fix Transfer Errors, Context Loss, and Formatting Problems
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
ChatGPT to Gemini Issues: Fix Transfer Errors, Context Loss, and Formatting Problems
Facing ChatGPT to Gemini transfer errors, broken formatting, or missing context? Here’s a simple guide to fix import issues and move your… Continue reading on M
LangGraph: Conditional Edge — Basic Routing and Looping
Medium · Python 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
LangGraph: Conditional Edge — Basic Routing and Looping
ในบทความนี้ เราจะเริ่มเจาะลึกความสามารถที่ “ทรงพลังที่สุด” อย่างหนึ่งของ LangGraph นั่นคือ Conditional Edge หรือการที่ Flow ของโปรแกรม… Continue reading on Medi
Introducing Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable Opus model yet.
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Introducing Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable Opus model yet.
It handles long-running tasks with more rigor, follows instructions more precisely, and verifies its own outputs before reporting back. Continue reading on Medi
From PDFs to Answers: Understanding RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) Systems
Medium · RAG 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
From PDFs to Answers: Understanding RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) Systems
Introduction Continue reading on Medium »
10x cheaper LLM tokens, but how?
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
10x cheaper LLM tokens, but how?
TL;DR, just give me the code Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
How to Measure and Reduce Your LLM Tokenizer Costs
You're shipping an AI-powered feature, the demo looks great, and then the invoice arrives. Suddenly that clever summarization endpoint is costing you $400/day b
The AI Architect Part 1: Foundations of AI with Vectors, RAG, and the Evolution of Memory
Medium · RAG 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
The AI Architect Part 1: Foundations of AI with Vectors, RAG, and the Evolution of Memory
If you’ve spent any time near the backend of an AI application recently, you’ve heard the same three letters shouted from the rooftops… Continue reading on Medi
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
The Order of Recognition Changes Meaning -Non‑Commutative Recognition Layers and the Fluctuation of…
Is Ego Necessary for Evolution? Continue reading on Medium »
This One Claude Skill Cut My Token Usage by 75%. Here Is Exactly How to Set It Up.
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
This One Claude Skill Cut My Token Usage by 75%. Here Is Exactly How to Set It Up.
It is called the Caveman Skill. It makes Claude talk like a caveman. And it is one of the most useful things I have added to my AI… Continue reading on Generati
Introduction to Prompt Engineering: The Skill That Separates Good Developers From Great Ones
Medium · JavaScript 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Introduction to Prompt Engineering: The Skill That Separates Good Developers From Great Ones
A practical, example-driven guide to writing prompts that actually work — from someone who’s built production AI systems. Continue reading on Medium »
LE CHANT DU BATCH
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
LE CHANT DU BATCH
13 zones d'instabilité Continue reading on Medium »
I Read Too Much and Remember Too Little! So I Built a Tool That Feeds an AI Wiki.
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
I Read Too Much and Remember Too Little! So I Built a Tool That Feeds an AI Wiki.
Okay, real talk. I have a bookmarks folder called “Read Later” with so many links in it. I have not read later. Not even close. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Transformers without Normalization