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Build It, Then Use It: How I wrote 435 AI engineering lessons from scratch

Rohit GhumareMay 24, 2026 • 6 min read

Build It, Then Use It: How I wrote 435 AI engineering lessons from scratch

The first time I wrote a tokenizer, I did it with a for loop. I counted byte pairs by hand, merged.....

#ai#machinelearning#agents#opensource

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AI Agent Governance vs IAM vs DLP vs API Gateways: What Each One Actually Covers

Jesse WilliamsMay 25, 2026 • 9 min read

AI Agent Governance vs IAM vs DLP vs API Gateways: What Each One Actually Covers

IAM, DLP, and API gateways are necessary parts of an organization's security stack. None of them...

#ai#security#agents#machinelearning

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I'm not an ML engineer. I built one anyway.

Mohamed ZrougaMay 25, 2026 • 5 min read

I'm not an ML engineer. I built one anyway.

Not because I wanted to — but because every tool I tried on ARM edge devices either needed the cloud...

#machinelearning#linux#security#go

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I just published Part 1 of "The Machine Learning Engineering Series", where I break down the full lifecycle: how raw data becomes a trained model, gets containerised, and ships as a live API that other engineers can actually build on.

MichellebuchiokonichaMay 26, 2026 • 1 min read

I just published Part 1 of "The Machine Learning Engineering Series", where I break down the full lifecycle: how raw data becomes a trained model, gets containerised, and ships as a live API that other engineers can actually build on.

The Machine Learning Engineering Series ...

#api#docker#machinelearning#tutorial

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MichellebuchiokonichaMay 26, 2026 • 5 min read

The Machine Learning Engineering Series

Part 1: From Scratch to Systems . This machine learning series will be a real ride. It’s...

#ai#machinelearning#deeplearning#software

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RAG Is Not Always the Answer Anymore: How AI Agents Search Code in 2026

Nimesh KulkarniMay 26, 2026 • 6 min read

RAG Is Not Always the Answer Anymore: How AI Agents Search Code in 2026

Why modern AI coding agents often use grep, file reads, symbols, and tests before reaching for vecto...

#ai#rag#programming#machinelearning

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I Built a Multilingual Spam Detection Dataset with 149K+ Messages Across 23 Languages

Arjun MMay 25, 2026 • 4 min read

I Built a Multilingual Spam Detection Dataset with 149K+ Messages Across 23 Languages

Spam detection datasets are surprisingly bad once you move outside English. Most public datasets...

#data#machinelearning#nlp#showdev

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Running Local LLM - 0$ Personal Agentic AI Assistant - Part 3

AK DevCraftMay 25, 2026 • 7 min read

Running Local LLM - 0$ Personal Agentic AI Assistant - Part 3

Introduction Part 3 of the Zero Dollar personal AI Assistant series, running Local LLMs on...

#ai#llm#openclaw#machinelearning

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How Model Distillation Actually Works (and What the 'China Distilled Our Model' Headlines Really Mean)

Sergey ParfenovMay 29, 2026 • 6 min read

How Model Distillation Actually Works (and What the 'China Distilled Our Model' Headlines Really Mean)

A practical, no-hype explainer of knowledge distillation in LLMs — the actual mechanics, why distill...

#machinelearning#ai#llm#deeplearning

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RAG Explained: How Retrieval-Augmented Generation Actually Works

Suraj SharmaMay 25, 2026 • 2 min read

RAG Explained: How Retrieval-Augmented Generation Actually Works

A visual walkthrough of RAG's two pipelines — ingestion and query — covering chunking, embeddings, v...

#ai#machinelearning#llm#rag

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We Didn’t Just Train AI on the Internet. We Started Training It on Itself.

Arpit GuptaMay 28, 2026 • 3 min read

We Didn’t Just Train AI on the Internet. We Started Training It on Itself.

There’s a quiet assumption in almost every AI discussion right now: “If we scale compute and...

#ai#machinelearning#datascience#claude

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Docker with AI: A Practical Guide to Running LLMs, Agents and MCP

Harsh ManvarMay 26, 2026 • 7 min read

Docker with AI: A Practical Guide to Running LLMs, Agents and MCP

If you've been searching for how to actually use Docker with AI not just spin up a demo but run...

#ai#docker#machinelearning#llm

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Andrew JuddMay 27, 2026 • 2 min read

Less Than a Penny Per Document

People hear "I replaced my OCR pipeline with a vision model" and the first thing they ask about is c...

#ocr#python#ai#machinelearning

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Fine-Tuning Llama 3.2 3B on Medical QA: Week 2- Data Preparation

Nicholas (Kosisochukwu) UgbalaMay 27, 2026 • 6 min read

Fine-Tuning Llama 3.2 3B on Medical QA: Week 2- Data Preparation

What Happened This Week Week 1 established the baseline. This week is where the actual...

#ai#programming#machinelearning#llm

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Why Does AI Make Things Up? A Dev's Guide to Hallucination

SpicyMay 24, 2026 • 4 min read

Why Does AI Make Things Up? A Dev's Guide to Hallucination

Quick version: LLMs don't look things up. They predict probable token sequences. When the model's...

#ai#developers#llm#machinelearning

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What happens when you hide embeddings but keep search working?

zahraarmantechMay 26, 2026 • 3 min read

What happens when you hide embeddings but keep search working?

What happens when you hide embeddings but keep search working? I spent the last few months building...

#security#privacy#python#machinelearning

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Why your quantized LLM loses its MTP heads and how to keep them

Alan WestMay 27, 2026 • 5 min read

Why your quantized LLM loses its MTP heads and how to keep them

Quantizing a model with multi-token prediction heads? Here's why standard conversion pipelines drop ...

#machinelearning#llm#python#quantization

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The Invisible Hijack: How AI Authority Laundering Tricks Vision Models

Alessandro PignatiMay 27, 2026 • 8 min read

The Invisible Hijack: How AI Authority Laundering Tricks Vision Models

Today, Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like GPT-4o, Claude 3.5, and Gemini are becoming our primary...

#ai#cybersecurity#machinelearning#aisecurity

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The Verification Gap: What Stanford's 2026 AI Index Reveals About Single-Model Reliability

Nikita KalachevMay 25, 2026 • 10 min read

The Verification Gap: What Stanford's 2026 AI Index Reveals About Single-Model Reliability

Originally published on platilus.com — cross-posted here for the dev.to community. An analysis of....

#ai#machinelearning#chatgpt#beginners

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Prompt Injection Is the New SQL Injection: Here's the System We Built to Stop It

Sangamesh Girish DandinMay 25, 2026 • 6 min read

Prompt Injection Is the New SQL Injection: Here's the System We Built to Stop It

Prompt injection doesn't get enough attention. SQL injection has decades of tooling and...

#security#machinelearning#python#webdev

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I Built a Prompt Injection Detector with 98% Recall on Unseen Attacks. Here's Why Data Beat Architecture.

Francisco AntonioMay 25, 2026 • 3 min read

I Built a Prompt Injection Detector with 98% Recall on Unseen Attacks. Here's Why Data Beat Architecture.

Six weeks ago I shipped Lunaris Guard v0.1 — a dual-head classifier for prompt injection and content...

#ai#machinelearning#opensource#security

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I Ran a 2-Billion Parameter AI Model in a Browser Tab. No Server.

Gautam VhavleMay 25, 2026 • 14 min read

I Ran a 2-Billion Parameter AI Model in a Browser Tab. No Server.

I ran a 2-billion-parameter language model entirely inside a browser tab. No server. No API key. No...

#ai#llm#machinelearning#webdev

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Higher Retrieval Accuracy Had the Worse Safety Result

Self-Correcting SystemsMay 27, 2026 • 5 min read

Higher Retrieval Accuracy Had the Worse Safety Result

I ran the next version of my AI memory judgment demo, and the result exposed a problem with judging....