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LLM Foundations

Explain how transformers generate text

Write zero-shot and few-shot prompts

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Call LLM APIs with function/tool use

Fine-tuning LLMs

Prepare fine-tuning datasets

Multimodal LLMs

Use GPT-4V / Claude Vision for image understanding

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I Spent Two Weeks Testing Chinese AI Models and Got Surprised

Dev.to · purecast 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1h 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 AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2h ago

IA local vs ChatGPT para empresas: qué usar y cuándo

IA Local vs ChatGPT para Empresas: Qué Usar y Cuándo Por David García Muñoz-Hita – Itelnet Consulting Si te encuentras leyendo esto en dev.to, probablemente ya

Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2h ago

Prompt Engineering Best Practices for Gemma

Getting quality output from Gemma isn't about clever tricks — it's about matching its exact chat template, structuring instructions clearly, and knowing where i

Your AI Prompts Have an Expiration Date (And Nobody Told You)

Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3h ago

Your AI Prompts Have an Expiration Date (And Nobody Told You)

Why the exact wording that worked six months ago now returns worse output, on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini alike. Continue reading on Medium »

NotebookLM for Students: How to Turn Lecture Notes into Better Grades

Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3h ago

NotebookLM for Students: How to Turn Lecture Notes into Better Grades

From organizing lecture notes to generating quizzes and personalized study guides, here’s how NotebookLM can make studying more efficient… Continue reading on M

Asking Fable about Machine Consciousness got Interesting…

Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3h ago

Asking Fable about Machine Consciousness got Interesting…

I performed an interesting thought experiment today and gave Anthropic Claude’s new Fable 5 model something to chew on. I have a Pro… Continue reading on Medium

The Second Brain They Can’t Subpoena: Local RAG on a Pi 5

Dev.to · v. Splicer 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3h 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 3h 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

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Claude Azure GA, Anthropic AI Workbench, Google NotebookLM Video Summaries

Claude Azure GA, Anthropic AI Workbench, Google NotebookLM Video Summaries ...

Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4h ago

How to Use Poe for Llm-Friendly Content Structure in 2026

Originally published at https://seointent.com/blog/poe-for-llm-friendly-content-structure TL;DR - Poe for llm-friendly content structure lets you run multiple A

Kairos-4B: the open-source world model that just lapped the competition four times over

Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5h ago

Kairos-4B: the open-source world model that just lapped the competition four times over

ACE ROBOTICS built a 4-billion-parameter model that tops four simultaneous SOTA leaderboards, runs in real time on an edge device, and… Continue reading on Medi

Google’s Open Knowledge Format (OKF): Is This the Beginning of the End for RAG?

Medium · Programming 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5h ago

Google’s Open Knowledge Format (OKF): Is This the Beginning of the End for RAG?

Google isn’t replacing Retrieval-Augmented Generation. It might just be making it smarter. Continue reading on Next-Gen Cloud Journal »

Inside the Mind of a Machine: The Human Guide to Understanding How AI (Truly) Sees, Learns, and…

Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5h ago

Inside the Mind of a Machine: The Human Guide to Understanding How AI (Truly) Sees, Learns, and…

Before we take our first step, know that you can find all the infographics and detailed visual explanations we are about to discuss in… Continue reading on Medi

LLM-as-a-Judge: The Complete Guide to Automated Evaluation at Scale with Azure

Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5h ago

LLM-as-a-Judge: The Complete Guide to Automated Evaluation at Scale with Azure

Introduction: Why We Need Automated Judges Continue reading on Towards AI »

Everyone is talking about prompts.

Medium · Programming 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5h ago

Everyone is talking about prompts.

"Just write a good prompt." "AI will do the rest." Continue reading on Medium »

THE FINAL GOAL OF SILENCE IS TO BE HEARD FROM Q1 TO Q5

Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 5h ago

THE FINAL GOAL OF SILENCE IS TO BE HEARD FROM Q1 TO Q5

Artificial Intelligence and the Multilingual World Q1: Continue reading on Medium »

Hacker News (AI) 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6h ago

New AI tutor achieves 0.71-1.30 SD effect size in Dartmouth course [pdf]

Guardrails for LLM Apps in Java

Dev.to · Puneet Gupta 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6h 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 6h 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 6h 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 6h 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 6h 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 6h 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 6h 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 6h 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

From Raw Text to Intelligent AI: The 5 Stages Behind Every Large Language Model

Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 7h ago

From Raw Text to Intelligent AI: The 5 Stages Behind Every Large Language Model

Most people interact with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Llama every day. But very few understand what happens before an AI can answer a… Continue reading on Mediu

From Raw Text to Intelligent AI: The 5 Stages Behind Every Large Language Model

Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 7h ago

From Raw Text to Intelligent AI: The 5 Stages Behind Every Large Language Model

Most people interact with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Llama every day. But very few understand what happens before an AI can answer a… Continue reading on Mediu

From Raw Text to Intelligent AI: The 5 Stages Behind Every Large Language Model

Medium · NLP 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 7h ago

From Raw Text to Intelligent AI: The 5 Stages Behind Every Large Language Model

Most people interact with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Llama every day. But very few understand what happens before an AI can answer a… Continue reading on Mediu

Reddit r/MachineLearning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 7h ago

I built an open, from-scratch MT pipeline + parallel corpus for Tunisian Darija (Arabizi) early baseline, and I'm growing it into a curated community corpus [P]

I'm an 18-year-old independent student from Tunisia. I built and I'm leading an open, from-scratch machine-translation pipeline and parallel corpus for Tunisian

Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 8h ago

From Lake to LLM: Building AI-Ready Data with Amazon S3 Tables

Participating in the AWS Community Day Kochi on December 20, 2025 was an absolutely fantastic experience. There is always a certain type of energy being surroun

Bulletproof design for a local LLM-as-a-judge

Dev.to · Michael Rakutko 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 8h 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...

The Hidden Cost of Every LLM API Call

Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 9h ago

The Hidden Cost of Every LLM API Call

What actually happens after your application sends a prompt to an LLM? Continue reading on Medium »

Contextual Retrieval in Practice

Medium · RAG 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 9h ago

Contextual Retrieval in Practice

What I learned building an AI Act chatbot Continue reading on Medium »

Designer as a Designation

Medium · UX Design 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 9h ago

Designer as a Designation

What makes AI work? Prompts. But prompting is only half the battle, wouldn’t even consider it as half but lesser. Tons of energy is… Continue reading on Bootcam

LLMs vs AI Agents: What’s the Real Difference?

Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 9h ago

LLMs vs AI Agents: What’s the Real Difference?

The AI world keeps mixing these two up. Here’s the simple, no-jargon breakdown of what each one actually does. Continue reading on CodeToDeploy »

LLMs vs AI Agents: What’s the Real Difference?

Medium · Programming 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 9h ago

LLMs vs AI Agents: What’s the Real Difference?

The AI world keeps mixing these two up. Here’s the simple, no-jargon breakdown of what each one actually does. Continue reading on CodeToDeploy »

You Can Run a Real AI LLM Model on Your Laptop Tonight — Here’s The 10-Minute Version

Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 9h ago

You Can Run a Real AI LLM Model on Your Laptop Tonight — Here’s The 10-Minute Version

No cloud, no API bills, no data leaving your machine. Continue reading on Towards AI »

SYLON9.0: Chapter 9

Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 11h ago

SYLON9.0: Chapter 9

Prompt Connection as the Entry Point to Step 1 Continue reading on SYLON : An Architecture for Expanding and Deepening Generative AI Thinking »

LLM’leri Anlamak #1 — Text Embeddings Nedir ve Neden Yapay Zekânın Temelidir?

Medium · NLP 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 11h ago

LLM’leri Anlamak #1 — Text Embeddings Nedir ve Neden Yapay Zekânın Temelidir?

Son birkaç haftadır Google’ın Vertex AI eğitimlerini takip ediyorum. Konu Text Embeddings. Continue reading on Medium »

Local LLM Performansını Nasıl Ölçeriz? Dünyada En Çok Kullanılan Metotlar

Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 11h ago

Local LLM Performansını Nasıl Ölçeriz? Dünyada En Çok Kullanılan Metotlar

2026 yılına geldiğimizde “yapay zekayı kendi bilgisayarında çalıştırmak” artık meraklıların hafta sonu projesi olmaktan çıktı. Ollama ile… Continue reading on M

Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 12h ago

14x Cheaper AI: A Real-World LLM Distillation Case Study on Bedrock

On 20 December 2025, I was fortunate to be a part of the AWS Community Day Kochi. There were fantastic sessions going on throughout the event, but there was one

Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 12h ago

Enterprise Semantic Search services

💡 Key Highlights Enterprise Semantic Search services enable organizations to leverage AI-driven search capabilities, integrating with existing systems and data

Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 12h ago

Enterprise Retrieval-Augmented Generation software

💡 Key Highlights Enterprise Retrieval-Augmented Generation software : A cutting-edge technology that combines the power of retrieval-based and generation-based

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 12h 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 13h 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 13h ago

I Built an AI That Never Forgets

I Built an AI That Never Forgets — for $0 (Cognee Hackathon) By Team MindVault — Jay...

“Large language models for clinical trials in the Global South: opportunities and ethical…

Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 13h ago

“Large language models for clinical trials in the Global South: opportunities and ethical…

[eprints.whiterose.ac](https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/235847/) Continue reading on Medium »

Top AI Papers on Hugging Face - 2026-07-05

Dev.to · Y Hành Nhan 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 13h 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...