New AI Tutorials & How-To Guides | Blog Network
Hands-on AI tutorials and cookbooks you can follow tonight — guides for building with the latest models and tools, step by step.
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- Claude Code token costs — Anthropic explains what makes sessions expensive
Anthropic's guide lists the habits that make a Claude Code session cost more than it needs to.
- local-llm — jamesob's field guide to running GLM-5.2 and Qwen3.6 on your desk
Two full home-lab recipes — one $2K, one $40K — for running today's SOTA open-weight LLMs on your own metal.
- Beyond LoRA — Hugging Face benchmark shows OFT and BEFT can beat the default
OFT, BEFT, and Lily can beat LoRA — and PEFT now converts them all to LoRA format for vLLM.
- Kyle Howells: How to set up a local coding agent on macOS — 72 tokens/sec on Gemma 4
A working recipe for a local coding agent on a Mac, with measured throughput numbers and an OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
- Hugging Face Context Course — Context Engineering for Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode
Hugging Face's new course teaches the skill that separates good agent builders from great ones: context engineering.
- Hugging Face Cookbook: Optimizing Language Models with DSPy GEPA
Automatically improve your LLM prompts with error analysis — a complete runnable tutorial.
- The Batch Issue 351: Andrew Ng on Modern AI Prompting — Extended Thinking, Tool Use, and Document Context
Andrew Ng explains how prompting in 2026 looks nothing like 2022 — and what you need to learn.
- How LLMs Work — Interactive Visual Deep Dive (179 HN Points)
A scroll-through visual guide covering the complete LLM pipeline from raw data to RLHF — built with Claude Code from Karpathy's lecture.
- Building Agentic RAG with LlamaIndex — Free DeepLearning.AI Short Course
A free, hands-on course that teaches you to build RAG agents that can reason, use tools, and query multiple documents.
- Claude Cookbooks — Anthropic's Official Recipe Collection for Building with Claude
Copy-paste Jupyter notebooks for every major Claude API feature, maintained by Anthropic.
- OpenAI Cookbook — Official Examples and Guides for the OpenAI API
The single largest collection of runnable OpenAI API examples, maintained by OpenAI.