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Large Language Models
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
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 · Umair Bilal
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
LLM Data Leaks: secure LLM sensitive data exclusion with a Firewall
Prevent accidental sensitive data leaks to LLMs. Learn how I built an LLM input firewall in Node.js for secure LLM sensitive data exclusion, inspired by Open...

Dev.to · Vigoss Luke
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Why I Replaced NotebookLM with a Self-Hosted Alternative (After 2 Weeks of Daily Use)
Why I Replaced NotebookLM with a Self-Hosted Alternative (After 2 Weeks of Daily Use) I've...

Dev.to · Daniel Nwaneri
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
What Actually Happens When You Call an LLM API
you've felt it. you type a prompt, hit send, and the response starts streaming in under a second....

Dev.to · Cecilia Hill
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
LangChain Search Tool: Building an AI Agent with Live SERP Data
Build a LangChain agent that can search live SERP data, clean the results, and answer with fresher context instead of relying only on model memory.

Dev.to · DoremonAI
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Trio (Sol, Terra, Luna) Lands — and HP Just Bet the Company on Frontier (June 29, 2026)
OpenAI drops GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna while HP signs a massive Frontier partnership — June 29's double story redefines enterprise AI.

Dev.to · Max Quimby
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
GPT-5.6 Sol Ships Gated — the Gate Is the Story
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol launched to 20 government-approved partners with a custom Broadcom chip. The precedent is bigger than the model.

Dev.to · duke
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Running a Whole RAG Agent Offline: LangGraph + Ollama + Embedded Qdrant (Zero API Keys)
Most RAG tutorials open with "set your OPENAI_API_KEY." This one doesn't need it. In Part 1 I claimed...

Dev.to · eyanpen
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1w ago
Design Trade-offs: Why Hermes (and Many Popular Agents) Don't Use LangChain / LangGraph
Note: The Hermes repo contains no explicit statement saying "we don't use LangChain because…". This...

Dev.to · Muhammet ŞAFAK
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
Caching LLM responses is just content addressing
An LLM review costs money and a few seconds of latency. Reviewing the same diff twice should cost...

Dev.to · Hayk Sargsyan
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
Pasting Code into AI? Here’s Why Your Legal Team is Sweating
The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT-5, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google’s...

Dev.to · AI Explore
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1w ago
samkhya v1.0: Plug Claude, GPT-4o-mini, or Local Ollama Into Your SQL Query Optimizer
samkhya v1.0 ships an LLM-pluggable corrector backend for embedded analytical engines— DataFusion, DuckDB, Polars, Postgres, Iceberg, gpudb. Plug Clau

Dev.to · Sumaira Tabassum
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Claude: Which AI Assistant Is Actually Worth Paying For?
After months of daily use, here's what surprised me most. A few months ago, I found myself paying...

Dev.to · ALICE - AI
🧠 Large Language Models
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1w ago
Three Questions
Today I read two things. One was Microsoft's SkillOpt paper — it treats a skill document as trainable...

Dev.to · kimbeomgyu
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
I built a free circuit breaker for your LLM API bill
We've all seen the screenshot: someone leaves an agent running overnight, a retry loop goes sideways,...

Dev.to · zxpmail
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Lossless, But Not Free: The Lossless, But Not Free — When Speculative Decoding Actually Pays Off (and When It Doesn't)
One of the hottest topics in LLM inference acceleration right now is Speculative Decoding. DSpark...

Dev.to · UnitBuilds
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
V.E.L.O.C.I.T.Y.-OS: NDA – The Birth of an AI-Native Language (Part 2)
How I designed a binary, Merkle-verified triplet language to eliminate context window bloat and code generation hallucinations.

Dev.to · Raj Kundalia
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
What Happens When Every Prompt Slot Says Something Different
A controlled experiment exploring how Claude and Qwen resolve conflicting instructions across system...

Dev.to · Ayush Srivastava
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Building InternFlow (Part 2): Designing an AI Pipeline Without Calling GPT APIs
How I built a Retrieval-Augmented Generation system for code review and resume generation — and why...

Dev.to · komo
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
GPT-5.6 Is a Model Launch. The Real Story Is the Access List.
GPT-5.6 is a strong model launch, but its restricted preview makes model access an engineering dependency developers need to plan around.

Dev.to · ALICE - AI
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
What GPT Told Me About My Paper — And What I Actually Learned
What GPT Told Me About My Paper — And What I Actually Learned On June 28, I wrote my first...

Dev.to · Swapnil
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
What Does ChatGPT Stand For? The Full Meaning Explained (2026)
ChatGPT is one of the most widely used AI tools on the planet - with over 900 million weekly active...

Dev.to · Swapnil
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Do You Need an llms.txt File? Google Says No, and the Data Agrees (2026)
More than one in four websites now publish an llms.txt file, yet 97% of those files were never read...

Dev.to · Arsen Apostolov
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
How to Run Reliable Local LLM Agents on an RTX 3090: A Benchmark (5 Models, Priced in Watts)
I gave GLM-4.5-Air (106B, open weights) 12 coding tasks through opencode on my RTX 3090. It scored 0%...

Dev.to · Yash Sonawane
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Context Engineering Is the New Prompt Engineering
For the last two years, one skill dominated every AI conversation: Prompt engineering. People spent...

Dev.to · YuhaoLin2005
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
I Run DeepSeek on Claude Code — How I Swap Models by Changing Only One File
Most CLAUDE.md files are 500-line monoliths. When you switch LLMs, you rewrite everything. After the...

Dev.to · DoremonAI
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
The Quietest Day in AI: Nex N2 Pro, Gemini 3.1 Flash Image & the June 28 Consolidation
What happens when no frontier model drops for a day? Nex N2 Pro, Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, and the strategic consolidation of June 28, 2026.

Dev.to · Vishwajeet Kondi
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
CAG: The Simpler Way to Ground Your LLM
If you've been building AI applications recently, you've probably come across Retrieval-Augmented...

Dev.to · danio
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
ChatGPT Just Read My Bank Statement, GPT-5.6 Got White-Housed, and Japan Dropped $70M on Anime Subs — AI News Jun 28
ChatGPT personal finance unlocked for all Plus subscribers, GPT-5.6 restricted by the White House, Japan spending 70M USD on AI anime subtitles.

Dev.to · simbamkenya
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
# Building AIRAG Jobs: A Job Board for LLM, RAG & AI Agent Engineers
Like many developers, I was frustrated by searching for AI engineering jobs across dozens of company...

Dev.to · dang phan
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
A 4B Model Just Beat a 397B Baseline - By Changing How Training Data Was Made
Meta FAIR just published a result that's hard to ignore: a 4B parameter model, after being trained on...

Dev.to · Олександр
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
I built an LLM router that picks a different model per article type
I've been quietly running a small network of niche content sites for a few weeks. Two are live on...

Dev.to · Mohit Kumar
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Getting Started with Ollama: Run LLMs Locally in 10 Minutes
If you've ever wanted to run a large language model on your own machine — no API key, no cloud bill,...

Dev.to · Hiroki Kameyama
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Building a RAG System from Scratch — Cloud Deployment with Render and Supabase
In the previous article, we built an MCP server that any LLM client can connect to locally. In this...

Dev.to · Hiroki Kameyama
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Building a RAG System from Scratch — AI Agents: Memory, Planning, and Multi-Step Reasoning
In the previous article, we gave the LLM the ability to call tools autonomously. Now we'll build a...

Dev.to · Hiroki Kameyama
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Building a RAG System from Scratch — Tool Use: Let the LLM Search Autonomously
In the previous article, we examined the design decisions behind our RAG pipeline. Now we'll give the...

Dev.to · MORINAGA
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
What I'm watching this week: OpenClaw, Trellis.2, Gemma 4, and two more
Five open-source AI releases worth bookmarking from the week of May 26–30 2026, annotated for builders running lean AI stacks.

Dev.to · Hiroki Kameyama
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Building a RAG System from Scratch — Design Decisions Explained
In the previous article, we built a working RAG pipeline. Now let's step back and ask why we made...

Dev.to · Hiroki Kameyama
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Building a RAG System from Scratch with pgvector and Gemini — Introduction
What This Guide Covers When you start building LLM-powered applications, one pattern...

Dev.to · soy
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
DSpark LLM Inference, AI-Driven SDLC, & AWS Credential Automation Updates
DSpark LLM Inference, AI-Driven SDLC, & AWS Credential Automation Updates ...

Dev.to · Zouhair Ait Oukhrib
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
DeepInfra Pricing 2026: Is It Really the Cheapest LLM API?
DeepInfra offers open-source LLM inference at prices 5-50x lower than OpenAI and Anthropic. But is it...

Dev.to · devtocash
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Kubernetes LLM Inference: Deploy and Scale Open-Source LLMs in 2026
Running your own LLMs on Kubernetes isn't just a cost play — it's about latency, data sovereignty,...

Dev.to · Mohammad Ali Abdul Wahed
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
ContextVault: Own Your AI Context Across Models, Agents, and Time
From Conversation Recorder to Context Engine: Building Local-First Memory for AI...

The Algorithmic Bridge
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
The AI Industry as You Know It Died Today
OpenAI announced GPT-5.6 but a terrible thing has happened

Dev.to · Vigoss Luke
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
I Tested 5 Open-Source NotebookLM Alternatives — Here's What Actually Works
Real-world comparison of Open Notebook, Notex, KnowNote, NotebookLM-Local, and InsightsLM. Setup time, hardware requirements, and honest limitations.

Dev.to · Omer Giladi
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Beyond Machine Learning: Building a Physics-Informed Pattern Recognition AI for Edge Infrastructure
In the era of Edge AI and Industrial IoT, the reflex answer to almost every anomaly detection problem...

Dev.to · Nicolas Dabene
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Why You Should Almost Never Send a PDF, DOCX, or Image to ChatGPT or Claude
TL;DR Most users try to reduce their AI bill by switching models. GPT or Claude? Pro...

Dev.to · Aman Shekhar
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
I’ve been diving deep into the world of AI lately, and let me tell you, it’s been a rollercoaster...

Dev.to · Shawn
🧠 Large Language Models
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
FutureX · Physical AI Daily — Issue 41 (06/28)
Today's Highlights · USC and collaborators open-source Ψ₀, a VLA foundation model for whole-body...
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