r/LLMDevs

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A space for Enthusiasts, Developers and Researchers to discuss LLMs and their applications.

The community at a glance

r/LLMDevs is a Subreddit for Programmers, Artificial Intelligence, and Vibe Coders with roughly 152K members. It uses a forum format for communication. On the Hive Index it ranks #6 in the Vibe Coding communities list and #10 in the Artificial Intelligence communities list.

Roughly 62K members have joined in the past year. Popular discussion topics include Ai, Llm, and Agent. Common discussion themes are Money Talk and Advice Requests.

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Yearly: +62K members
Growth: +69.3% / year

Member growth over time

All time (yearly)

  • 2024: 19K members
  • 2025: 103K members
  • 2026: 26K members

Past year (monthly)

  • Jul: 6K members
  • Aug: 7K members
  • Sep: 6K members
  • Oct: 5K members
  • Nov: 6K members
  • Dec: 4K members
  • Jan: 3K members
  • Feb: 5K members
  • Mar: 5K members
  • Apr: 6K members
  • May: 5K members
  • Jun: 2K members

Themes

  • Money Talk
    6 posts in the past month
    1. AI consultant reveals a client accidentally spent $500,000,000.00 in a single month after failing to set employee limits on Claude usage.
    2. Are companies actually seeing AI ROI?
    3. Won $2.5k in OpenAI API credits, what should I do with these?
    #1
    Money Talk
    AI consultant reveals a client accidentally spent $500,000,000.00 in a single month after failing to set employee limits on Claude usage. · Are companies actually seeing AI ROI? · Won $2.5k in OpenAI API credits, what should I do with these?
    6
  • Advice Requests
    5 posts in the past month
    1. I read threads complaining about claude every week... tf are y'alls workflows?
    2. Spent 3 months evaluating Galileo, Arize, Langfuse and LangSmith for production LLM monitoring. Notes for anyone doing the same.
    3. Gemini 3.5 Flash... Seeking technical explanation
    #2
    Advice Requests
    I read threads complaining about claude every week... tf are y'alls workflows? · Spent 3 months evaluating Galileo, Arize, Langfuse and LangSmith for production LLM monitoring. Notes for anyone doing the same. · Gemini 3.5 Flash... Seeking technical explanation
    5
  • Pain & Anger
    3 posts in the past month
    1. Token costs are actually unsustainable for multi-project work. how are you dealing with this
    2. Frustrated with retries in a multi agent system how are you handling recovery?
    3. anyone else's LLM agent pipelines breaking on bot-protected sites? the tool calls succeed but the data is garbage
    #3
    Pain & Anger
    Token costs are actually unsustainable for multi-project work. how are you dealing with this · Frustrated with retries in a multi agent system how are you handling recovery? · anyone else's LLM agent pipelines breaking on bot-protected sites? the tool calls succeed but the data is garbage
    3
  • Solution Requests
    2 posts in the past month
    1. What's currently considered the best PDF/document parsing tool for AI/RAG workflows in 2026?
    2. We built a tool that installs frameworks like ComfyUI, Ollama, OpenWebUI etc on any cloud GPU in one command and saves your whole setup between sessions
    #4
    Solution Requests
    What's currently considered the best PDF/document parsing tool for AI/RAG workflows in 2026? · We built a tool that installs frameworks like ComfyUI, Ollama, OpenWebUI etc on any cloud GPU in one command and saves your whole setup between sessions
    2
  • Opportunities
    1 post in the past month
    1. Building a dependency graph for MCP agents to avoid repeatedly re-reading codebases and it saved $60k dollars in a month
    #5
    Opportunities
    Building a dependency graph for MCP agents to avoid repeatedly re-reading codebases and it saved $60k dollars in a month
    1

Topics

  • Ai
    101 posts in the past month
    1. I made a tool to allow AI agents deliberate in parallel terminals, and discuss between them
    2. This site tracks 1,100+ AI benchmarks and models from every lab and independent evals
    3. Token costs are actually unsustainable for multi-project work. how are you dealing with this
    #1
    Ai
    I made a tool to allow AI agents deliberate in parallel terminals, and discuss between them · This site tracks 1,100+ AI benchmarks and models from every lab and independent evals · Token costs are actually unsustainable for multi-project work. how are you dealing with this
    101
  • Llm
    98 posts in the past month
    1. Built an open source spatial workspace for LLM coding workflows
    2. Vision-capable LLMs vs. OCR for long-document (including charts, images, tables, etc.) QA
    3. Why have most LLM providers stopped offering finetuning?
    #2
    Llm
    Built an open source spatial workspace for LLM coding workflows · Vision-capable LLMs vs. OCR for long-document (including charts, images, tables, etc.) QA · Why have most LLM providers stopped offering finetuning?
    98
  • Agent
    57 posts in the past month
    1. Running stateful Agents on stateless Lambda
    2. I built a Claude Code–style coding agent in ~5,000 lines of pure Python to teach how agents actually work (20-chapter course, no frameworks)
    3. Building a Self-Healing Coding Agent with MCP and Observability
    #3
    Agent
    Running stateful Agents on stateless Lambda · I built a Claude Code–style coding agent in ~5,000 lines of pure Python to teach how agents actually work (20-chapter course, no frameworks) · Building a Self-Healing Coding Agent with MCP and Observability
    57
  • Memory
    47 posts in the past month
    1. I tested in-conversation memory on LFM2.5, Gemma 4 E2B and E4B. The biggest model forgot a fact from earlier in the chat first.
    2. I tested whether architectural memory retrieves better coding-agent context than raw source search: 500 SWE-bench issues, 12 repos
    #4
    Memory
    I tested in-conversation memory on LFM2.5, Gemma 4 E2B and E4B. The biggest model forgot a fact from earlier in the chat first. · I tested whether architectural memory retrieves better coding-agent context than raw source search: 500 SWE-bench issues, 12 repos
    47
  • Agents
    38 posts in the past month
    1. We built an open-source eval harness for vibe coding agents
    #5
    Agents
    We built an open-source eval harness for vibe coding agents
    38

Flair

  • Discussion
    119 posts in the past month
    1. Is there literally even one?
    2. Hot take: "Your agent is mine" paper needs to keep being talked about.
    3. Zai published the network architecture running their inference cluster and it's a good systems design read
    #1
    Discussion
    Is there literally even one? · Hot take: "Your agent is mine" paper needs to keep being talked about. · Zai published the network architecture running their inference cluster and it's a good systems design read
    119
  • Resource
    20 posts in the past month
    1. Landscape of second brain and memory solutions for AI native workflow
    2. This open-source app that I built allows users to run entire fleet of claude code agents for days
    3. I made an Epstein Files RAG
    #2
    Resource
    Landscape of second brain and memory solutions for AI native workflow · This open-source app that I built allows users to run entire fleet of claude code agents for days · I made an Epstein Files RAG
    20
  • Help Wanted
    20 posts in the past month
    1. Trained a custom 1B SLM from scratch for ~$10 on a single A40 — looking for feedback/improvements
    2. What does your production LLM eval actually look like? Asking because ours held together with prompts and prayers
    3. I want to learn Ai/LLMs from scratch
    #3
    Help Wanted
    Trained a custom 1B SLM from scratch for ~$10 on a single A40 — looking for feedback/improvements · What does your production LLM eval actually look like? Asking because ours held together with prompts and prayers · I want to learn Ai/LLMs from scratch
    20
  • Tools
    17 posts in the past month
    1. I made a tool to allow AI agents deliberate in parallel terminals, and discuss between them
    2. Built an open source spatial workspace for LLM coding workflows
    3. We built an open-source context engine for coding agents that works just as well with open-weight models, here's how:
    #4
    Tools
    I made a tool to allow AI agents deliberate in parallel terminals, and discuss between them · Built an open source spatial workspace for LLM coding workflows · We built an open-source context engine for coding agents that works just as well with open-weight models, here's how:
    17
  • News
    11 posts in the past month
    1. AI consultant reveals a client accidentally spent $500,000,000.00 in a single month after failing to set employee limits on Claude usage.
    2. Minimax M3 is out: First open model with frontier coding + 1M context
    3. Google just killed the editor in Antigravity V2. Are we really supposed to be "Agent Managers" now?
    #5
    News
    AI consultant reveals a client accidentally spent $500,000,000.00 in a single month after failing to set employee limits on Claude usage. · Minimax M3 is out: First open model with frontier coding + 1M context · Google just killed the editor in Antigravity V2. Are we really supposed to be "Agent Managers" now?
    11
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Frequently asked questions

Who is r/LLMDevs for?
Best for Programmers and Artificial Intelligence and Vibe Coders enthusiasts looking for a Reddit-based community with forum discussion.
Is r/LLMDevs free to join?
This listing is not marked as paid-only. Access rules and any fees are decided by the community.
How many members does r/LLMDevs have?
Roughly 152K members, based on figures reported by the community or its host. Member counts are approximate and change over time.
What platform is r/LLMDevs on?
r/LLMDevs runs on Reddit. Reddit communities (or "subreddits") are forum-based groups on the popular social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website Reddit. Reddit is commonly known as "the front page of the internet". Users submit content to the site such as links, text posts, and images, which are then voted up or down and discussed by other members. From investing Reddit communities, to professional ones, to ones just for laughs, you're likely to find a community for you on Reddit.
What topics does r/LLMDevs cover?
On the Hive Index, r/LLMDevs is organized under Programmers, Artificial Intelligence, Vibe Coders.
How do I join r/LLMDevs?
You can join r/LLMDevs by clicking this link, or pressing the "Go to community" button above.
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The largest tech-adjacent category on the site, covering software engineering across languages, frameworks, and specialties. Discord and Slack host communities for specific languages and stacks, while Reddit has massive general programming communities. Good for code review, career advice, tool recommendations, and connecting with developers at similar stages.
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