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LLM Foundations
beginner
Explain how transformers generate text
Prompt Craft
beginner
Write zero-shot and few-shot prompts
LLM Engineering
intermediate
Call LLM APIs with function/tool use
Fine-tuning LLMs
advanced
Prepare fine-tuning datasets
Multimodal LLMs
advanced
Use GPT-4V / Claude Vision for image understanding
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Dev.to · enadoc2 temp
🧠 Large Language Models
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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...

Dev.to · NovaStack
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5h ago
Open-Weight LLM API Integration: An End-to-End Developer Guide
Open-Weight LLM API Integration: An End-to-End Developer Guide

Dev.to · Omer Hochman
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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

Dev.to · Pranav Raj
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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...

Dev.to · Clarity With AI
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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...

Dev.to · NovaStack
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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

Dev.to · Tifehh
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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...

Dev.to · Machine coding Master
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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...

Dev.to · Satyam Gupta
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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...

Dev.to · Yao Xiao
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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...

Dev.to · Hari Babu
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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...

Dev.to · Silviu Technology
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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.

Dev.to · Alex Chen
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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...

Dev.to · Programming Central
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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...

Dev.to · Developer-friendly
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1d ago
Why ChatGPT Cannot Wash Dishes
"ChatGPT is so smart! It can write essays, explain quantum physics, debug my terrible code, and even...

Dev.to · Prabhakar Chaudhary
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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...

Dev.to · Domenico Tenace
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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...
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Dev.to · Keo Fung | FormLM
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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...

Dev.to · Adamo Software
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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,...

Dev.to · purecast
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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...

Dev.to · v. Splicer
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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...

Dev.to · Nick Davies
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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...

Dev.to · soy
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2d ago
Claude Azure GA, Anthropic AI Workbench, Google NotebookLM Video Summaries
Claude Azure GA, Anthropic AI Workbench, Google NotebookLM Video Summaries ...

Dev.to · Puneet Gupta
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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

Dev.to · Puneet Gupta
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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

Dev.to · Puneet Gupta
🧠 Large Language Models
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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.

Dev.to · Puneet Gupta
🧠 Large Language Models
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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.

Dev.to · Puneet Gupta
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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

Dev.to · Puneet Gupta
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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

Dev.to · Puneet Gupta
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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.

Dev.to · Puneet Gupta
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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

Dev.to · Michael Rakutko
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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...

Dev.to · Yao Xiao
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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...

Dev.to · Durgam Sharanreddy
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2d ago
Why Most Students Learn AI the Wrong Way
A strange thing is happening in AI education. Students are completing course after course,...

Dev.to · Jay Bamroliya
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2d ago
I Built an AI That Never Forgets
I Built an AI That Never Forgets — for $0 (Cognee Hackathon) By Team MindVault — Jay...

Dev.to · Y Hành Nhan
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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...

Dev.to · carlosortet
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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...

Dev.to · zhongqiyue
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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...

Dev.to · Devanshu Biswas
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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....

Dev.to · bolddeck
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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...

Dev.to · Fazal Mansuri
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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...

Dev.to · Arsen Apostolov
🧠 Large Language Models
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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...

Dev.to · Next Big Creative
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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...

Dev.to · Cooki
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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...

Dev.to · Egor
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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...

Dev.to · 兆鹏 于
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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...

Dev.to · BAOFUFAN
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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,...

Dev.to · howiprompt
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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
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