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Large Language Models Articles

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  1. AI in Focus: Connecting DeepSeek to Rails

    Experimenting with a locally running version of the DeepSeek R1 LLM model in a real Rails app using Ollama and ruby-openai.

    Chad Pytel and Kate Young
    April 24, 2025
    • AI
    • Ethics
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    • Language Models
    • Ollama
    • Rails
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    • Large Language Models
  2. Connecting Deepseek to Rails plus more upcoming AI livestreams

    thoughtbot continues AI in Focus weekly livestreams starting February 2025. In the first session, Chad Pytel will teach you how to connect Deepseek to your Rails app.

    Lindsey Christensen
    February 4, 2025
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Large Language Models
    • Rails
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  3. LLMs can read text: Overlooked AI-assisted coding techniques

    We can do a lot more than generate one line of code at a time with large language models. Here are some other “LLM for coding” ideas.

    Fritz Meissner
    November 1, 2024
    • Large Language Models
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Rails
  4. This week in #dev (Aug 23, 2024)

    Using constraints in Postgres and querying LLMs in the terminal.

    thoughtbot
    September 2, 2024
    • This Week In Dev
    • TIL
    • PostgreSQL
    • Large Language Models
  5. Get consistent data from your LLM with JSON Schema

    How to parse content from a tool that is made to speak in human sentences.

    Rémy Hannequin
    February 13, 2024
    • JSON
    • Large Language Models
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Ruby
  6. How not to deploy an LLM

    We’ve experimented internally with LLMs on different aspects and I got into a rabbit hole no-one should fall into.

    George Kosmopoulos
    February 7, 2024
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • DevOps
    • Large Language Models
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