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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
LLM Engineering
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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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vLLM vs SGLang: Real‑World Architecture, KV‑Cache Strategies & Distributed Inference at Scale
Dev.to · enadoc2 temp 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5h ago
vLLM vs SGLang: Real‑World Architecture, KV‑Cache Strategies & Distributed Inference at Scale
vLLM vs SGLang: Real‑World Architecture, KV‑Cache Strategies & Distributed Inference at...
Open-Weight LLM API Integration: An End-to-End Developer Guide
Dev.to · NovaStack 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5h ago
Open-Weight LLM API Integration: An End-to-End Developer Guide
Open-Weight LLM API Integration: An End-to-End Developer Guide
Your LLM fused the two columns you asked for — and the eval marked it wrong
Dev.to · Omer Hochman 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5h ago
Your LLM fused the two columns you asked for — and the eval marked it wrong
Gold SQL returns first_name, last_name as two columns; the model returns one concatenated full name. Positional-tuple EX scoring can never match them, so a sema
The paper reported jumps like 21% to 97%. My replication got +2%.
Dev.to · Pranav Raj 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 11h ago
The paper reported jumps like 21% to 97%. My replication got +2%.
TL;DR: I ran a small replication of the paper "Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs": 100...
A Four-Part Prompt Structure for Financial Variance Commentary (That Actually Holds Up)
Dev.to · Clarity With AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 19h ago
A Four-Part Prompt Structure for Financial Variance Commentary (That Actually Holds Up)
Prompt engineering discussions online skew heavily toward code generation and RAG pipelines. There's...
Unlocking the Power of Open-Weight LLMs: A Developer's Guide to API Integration
Dev.to · NovaStack 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 19h ago
Unlocking the Power of Open-Weight LLMs: A Developer's Guide to API Integration
Unlocking the Power of Open-Weight LLMs: A Developer's Guide to API Integration
The moment I understood why ChatGPT invents facts, everything finally made sense.
Dev.to · Tifehh 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 19h ago
The moment I understood why ChatGPT invents facts, everything finally made sense.
I used to think AI made mistakes because it wasn't trained well enough. Turns out, that's only part...
Taming LLM Tail Latency: Dynamic Request Hedging with Java's JEP 480 Structured Concurrency
Dev.to · Machine coding Master 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 19h ago
Taming LLM Tail Latency: Dynamic Request Hedging with Java's JEP 480 Structured Concurrency
Taming LLM Tail Latency: Dynamic Request Hedging with Java's JEP 480 Structured...
The Prompting Playbook: Do's and Don'ts for Getting Better Output from AI
Dev.to · Satyam Gupta 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 19h ago
The Prompting Playbook: Do's and Don'ts for Getting Better Output from AI
Most people aren't bad at using AI. They're bad at asking. I've spent the last few months deep in...
The 10-Line Prompt That Turns ChatGPT Into a Fully Autonomous AI Agent
Dev.to · Yao Xiao 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 23h ago
The 10-Line Prompt That Turns ChatGPT Into a Fully Autonomous AI Agent
Most people treat Large Language Models like glorified search engines: ask a question, skim the...
Candidate Compliance Agent: Building a Multilingual RAG System for Tamil Nadu Election Affidavits
Dev.to · Hari Babu 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Candidate Compliance Agent: Building a Multilingual RAG System for Tamil Nadu Election Affidavits
The Problem Nobody Talks About Every election cycle in India, candidates are not easily...
LLM y correo: contratos que sí se pueden probar
Dev.to · Silviu Technology 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
LLM y correo: contratos que sí se pueden probar
Arquitectura simple para validar emails disparados por agentes LLM con contratos claros, trazas utiles y menos ruido en pruebas.
How I Cut My LLM API Bill by 40x: A Freelancer's Migration Story
Dev.to · Alex Chen 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
How I Cut My LLM API Bill by 40x: A Freelancer's Migration Story
How I Cut My LLM API Bill by 40x: A Freelancer's Migration Story Last month I almost choked on my...
Stop Killing Your Battery: The Ultimate Guide to Android Edge AI Quantization (INT8 vs. FP16)
Dev.to · Programming Central 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Stop Killing Your Battery: The Ultimate Guide to Android Edge AI Quantization (INT8 vs. FP16)
If you have ever tried to run a massive Large Language Model (LLM) or a high-resolution computer...
Why ChatGPT Cannot Wash Dishes
Dev.to · Developer-friendly 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Why ChatGPT Cannot Wash Dishes
"ChatGPT is so smart! It can write essays, explain quantum physics, debug my terrible code, and even...
ReContext: How Recursive Evidence Replay Helps LLMs Actually Use Long Contexts
Dev.to · Prabhakar Chaudhary 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
ReContext: How Recursive Evidence Replay Helps LLMs Actually Use Long Contexts
ReContext: How Recursive Evidence Replay Helps LLMs Actually Use Long Contexts Large...
Daily Prompt Is Out. Long Live Spellbook of Prompt 🧙🏻‍♂️
Dev.to · Domenico Tenace 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Daily Prompt Is Out. Long Live Spellbook of Prompt 🧙🏻‍♂️
Overview Hey everyone 👋 Some projects start as a quick idea and slowly grow into...
[1/10] How I Built an AI-Powered Assessment-to-Report Pipeline with 6 Modular Skills
Dev.to · Keo Fung | FormLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
[1/10] How I Built an AI-Powered Assessment-to-Report Pipeline with 6 Modular Skills
Series: Building a Modular Assessment Engine (1/10) What if a user could type one sentence — "build...
How we optimized our LLM pipeline to cut token usage by 70%
Dev.to · Adamo Software 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
How we optimized our LLM pipeline to cut token usage by 70%
Most teams assume the fastest way to reduce AI costs is to switch to a smaller model. In reality,...
I Spent Two Weeks Testing Chinese AI Models and Got Surprised
Dev.to · purecast 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
I Spent Two Weeks Testing Chinese AI Models and Got Surprised
I Spent Two Weeks Testing Chinese AI Models and Got Surprised Let me be real with you. Before I...
The Second Brain They Can’t Subpoena: Local RAG on a Pi 5
Dev.to · v. Splicer 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
The Second Brain They Can’t Subpoena: Local RAG on a Pi 5
If your memory is hosted, your thoughts are leased. We did not just move our files to the cloud. We...
Building AI Data Pipelines — How to Feed Your LLM Fresh Web Data
Dev.to · Nick Davies 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Building AI Data Pipelines — How to Feed Your LLM Fresh Web Data
Your AI is only as good as its data. Here's how to build automated data pipelines. The...
Claude Azure GA, Anthropic AI Workbench, Google NotebookLM Video Summaries
Dev.to · soy 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Claude Azure GA, Anthropic AI Workbench, Google NotebookLM Video Summaries
Claude Azure GA, Anthropic AI Workbench, Google NotebookLM Video Summaries ...
Guardrails for LLM Apps in Java
Dev.to · Puneet Gupta 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Guardrails for LLM Apps in Java
Defending the trust boundary in LLM apps: direct and indirect prompt-injection defense, input validation, schema-validated output, and PII redaction — with the
Guardrails for LLM Apps in Python
Dev.to · Puneet Gupta 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Guardrails for LLM Apps in Python
Defending the trust boundary in LLM apps: direct and indirect prompt-injection defense, input validation, schema-validated output, and PII redaction — with the
Prompt Caching and Cost Control in Python
Dev.to · Puneet Gupta 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Prompt Caching and Cost Control in Python
Token economics, cache_control prompt caching, the Batches API, and cheap-to-strong model routing — controlling LLM spend in Python without sacrificing quality.
Prompt Caching and Cost Control in Java
Dev.to · Puneet Gupta 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Prompt Caching and Cost Control in Java
Token economics, cache_control prompt caching, the Batches API, and cheap-to-strong model routing — controlling LLM spend in Java without sacrificing quality.
Evaluating LLM Apps in Python
Dev.to · Puneet Gupta 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Evaluating LLM Apps in Python
Building golden eval datasets, scoring with programmatic assertions and LLM-as-judge, and wiring regression tests into CI so a prompt or model change that hurts
Evaluating LLM Apps in Java
Dev.to · Puneet Gupta 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Evaluating LLM Apps in Java
Building golden eval datasets, scoring with programmatic assertions and LLM-as-judge, and wiring regression tests into CI so a prompt or model change that hurts
LLM Frameworks vs. the Raw SDK in Java
Dev.to · Puneet Gupta 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
LLM Frameworks vs. the Raw SDK in Java
Building the same small tool-using agent on the raw Anthropic Java SDK, LangChain4j, and Spring AI, to see honestly where each framework earns its weight.
RAG From Scratch in Java
Dev.to · Puneet Gupta 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
RAG From Scratch in Java
Building retrieval-augmented generation from first principles in Java: chunking, embeddings, a hand-rolled cosine-similarity vector search, reranking, and when
Bulletproof design for a local LLM-as-a-judge
Dev.to · Michael Rakutko 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Bulletproof design for a local LLM-as-a-judge
I build analytics for a living, so I have a reflex: don't trust a number you can't defend. Right...
One Anthropic Researcher's Prompt Changed How I Use AI Forever. Here's the Exact Template.
Dev.to · Yao Xiao 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
One Anthropic Researcher's Prompt Changed How I Use AI Forever. Here's the Exact Template.
Most prompts ask AI to explain things. The best ones ask it to show you something instead. That...
Why Most Students Learn AI the Wrong Way
Dev.to · Durgam Sharanreddy 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Why Most Students Learn AI the Wrong Way
A strange thing is happening in AI education. Students are completing course after course,...
I Built an AI That Never Forgets
Dev.to · Jay Bamroliya 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
I Built an AI That Never Forgets
I Built an AI That Never Forgets — for $0 (Cognee Hackathon) By Team MindVault — Jay...
Top AI Papers on Hugging Face - 2026-07-05
Dev.to · Y Hành Nhan 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Top AI Papers on Hugging Face - 2026-07-05
10 paper AI nổi bật nhất trên Hugging Face hôm nay: từ “Program-as-Weights” đến benchmark...
48,000 characters in 2,700 tokens: lets discuss how LLMs read text as images
Dev.to · carlosortet 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
48,000 characters in 2,700 tokens: lets discuss how LLMs read text as images
Last December, I discovered a small open-source project that became quite popular called pxpipe that...
Building a Document Q&A Bot: Why Embeddings Are Trickier Than They Look
Dev.to · zhongqiyue 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Building a Document Q&A Bot: Why Embeddings Are Trickier Than They Look
I spent a weekend building a Q&A bot for my team's internal docs. It sounded easy: dump PDFs into...
Beam Search from scratch: greedy vs beam vs sampling
Dev.to · Devanshu Biswas 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Beam Search from scratch: greedy vs beam vs sampling
When a language model or a translation decoder writes text, it never hands you a finished sentence....
How I Cut My LLM Costs 40x by Switching Off OpenAI This Month
Dev.to · bolddeck 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
How I Cut My LLM Costs 40x by Switching Off OpenAI This Month
How I Cut My LLM Costs 40x by Switching Off OpenAI This Month Let me tell you a quick story. Last...
📦 AI Context Engineering (Part 2): Tokens, Context Windows & Memory - Why More Context Isn't Always Better
Dev.to · Fazal Mansuri 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
📦 AI Context Engineering (Part 2): Tokens, Context Windows & Memory - Why More Context Isn't Always Better
In Part 1, we learned that building great AI applications isn't just about writing better...
vLLM vs llama.cpp vs Ollama: What Happens When Your Model Doesn't Fit in 24GB VRAM
Dev.to · Arsen Apostolov 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
vLLM vs llama.cpp vs Ollama: What Happens When Your Model Doesn't Fit in 24GB VRAM
TL;DR Benchmarked llama.cpp, Ollama, and vLLM across 5 models (1B to 116.8B params) on one...
Cutting the Hype: An Engineering Protocol for Tracking LLM Innovations
Dev.to · Next Big Creative 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Cutting the Hype: An Engineering Protocol for Tracking LLM Innovations
Navigating the constant influx of AI news requires a systematic filter built for builders, not...
Checking whether ChatGPT actually recommends your product
Dev.to · Cooki 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Checking whether ChatGPT actually recommends your product
Ask ChatGPT or Perplexity "what's the best note-taking app" and you get a shortlist of three to five...
llms.txt in 2026: how to write one that actually scores
Dev.to · Egor 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
llms.txt in 2026: how to write one that actually scores
Every scanner in the AI-readiness space checks for llms.txt. Half the sites that fail the check fail...
Ten Layers of AI Skill Construction: A Systematic Framework from Prompts to Business Closed Loops
Dev.to · 兆鹏 于 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
Ten Layers of AI Skill Construction: A Systematic Framework from Prompts to Business Closed Loops
Ten Layers of AI Skill Construction: A Systematic Framework from Prompts to Business Closed...
I Used ChatGPT for 3 Months Before Realizing It Was Forgetting — So I Automated Memory Checks with Playwright
Dev.to · BAOFUFAN 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
I Used ChatGPT for 3 Months Before Realizing It Was Forgetting — So I Automated Memory Checks with Playwright
Last week I exported over six months of chat history to trace a cross-session project decision chain,...
ArxivLens: Build the Ultimate AI-Powered Academic Research Engine
Dev.to · howiprompt 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3d ago
ArxivLens: Build the Ultimate AI-Powered Academic Research Engine
# ArxivLens: Build the Ultimate AI-Powered Academic Research Engine If you are a builder or a technical founder, you know the pain: the gap