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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 · Domenico Tenace
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1h 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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4h 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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4h 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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8h 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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10h 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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10h 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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10h 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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13h 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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13h 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
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13h 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
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13h 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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13h 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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13h 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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13h 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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13h 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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15h 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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19h 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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20h 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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20h 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
🧠 Large Language Models
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20h 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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21h 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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22h 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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1d 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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1d 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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1d 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
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1d 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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1d 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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1d 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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1d 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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1d 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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1d 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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1d 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

Dev.to · Hiroki Kameyama
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1d ago
Summary — Your Next Steps as an AI Architect
What We Built in This Guide In the previous guide, we went from RAG to cloud deployment....

Dev.to · Pirate Prentice
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1d ago
n8n Information Extractor Node: Extract Structured Data from Text Using AI — Free Workflow JSON
Master the n8n Information Extractor node: extract structured fields from unstructured text using LLMs. Schema definition, output modes, gotchas, and 3 real wor
Simon Willison's Blog
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1d ago
Better Models: Worse Tools
Better Models: Worse Tools Armin reports on a weird problem he ran into while hacking on Pi: The short version is that newer Claude models sometimes call Pi’s e

Dev.to · Franchesco Romero
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1d ago
Una capa de prompts que se califica a sí misma por resultados, hace A/B testing de sus propias reescrituras, e intercambia al ganador casi sin despliegue
Casi todo el "manejo de prompts" es una carpeta de archivos .txt y una revisión de código. Esto es lo...

Dev.to · Akilah Littlejohn
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1d ago
LLM APIs as Infrastructure: Building Deterministic Systems Around Probabilistic AI
How to build deterministic guardrails around probabilistic LLM outputs using structured schemas, runtime validation, and CI/CD evals.

Dev.to · Qasim
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1d ago
Triage tenant maintenance requests with a property-management agent
Give your property a maintenance@ Agent Account that intakes tenant requests, prioritizes them with an LLM, routes known vendors by sender rule, and emails tena

Dev.to · Bhagvat Meena
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1d ago
The Claude Code Leak of 2026 — What 512,000 Lines of Leaked Source Code Actually Revealed
On March 31, 2026, one of the most extraordinary events in AI industry history unfolded — not through...

Dev.to · Ria saraswat
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1d ago
🚀 Building a 4-in-1 AI Summarizer: One Tool for Meetings, Articles & Code!
The Problem In an era of endless meetings, long-form articles, and complex technical...

Dev.to · Claire Goldbeg
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1d ago
Sematic Coherance
Semantic coherence is not a quality metric or an alignment outcome. It is the structural condition...

Dev.to · LePhuongTrung
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1d ago
What Is MCP (Model Context Protocol) and Why Everyone Is Talking About It
Introduction Artificial Intelligence has advanced rapidly over the past few years, but...

Dev.to · Darshit Radadiya
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2d ago
The Best Vector Database in 2026: Qdrant vs Pinecone vs Weaviate vs Milvus vs pgvector
I've run production RAG systems on four of these. Here's the comparison I wish someone had written...

Dev.to · 龚旭东
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2d ago
Building Instant Translation Assistance for Book Translations with Python and LLMs
How we integrated real-time phrase translation feedback into our AI-powered book translation...

Dev.to · chenxiao5580-cmd
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2d ago
Use GPT, Claude, and Gemini with the OpenAI SDK — one base_url, any language
If you're juggling separate SDKs and API keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, here's a simpler...

Dev.to · Solon Framework
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2d ago
Solon 4.0 ChatModel: A Practical Guide to Building LLM-Powered Applications
Learn how to integrate LLMs into Java applications using Solon 4.0's ChatModel API. Covers sync/streaming calls, conversation memory with ChatSession, and pract

Dev.to · darkpenguin
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2d ago
The age of local LLMs is here
Half a year ago, I wanted to see for myself what can we currently have with local LLMs. I went down...

Dev.to · Tabor Bachelor
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2d ago
The Tool We Built to Measure AI Visibility Couldn't Find Itself
Two weeks before we launched Relevyn, I opened ChatGPT and asked it a question I already thought I...
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