SESSION 1 · 3 HOURS
Foundations
You can't steer what you don't understand — and most people use these tools with a mental model built from marketing, not mechanics. Before any tool, we build a working picture of what a large language model actually is and where its behavior comes from. Spend three hours here and every later session pays compound interest.
- What an LLM actually isStrip away the marketing and a large language model is a statistical engine that predicts the next token — almost everything it can and can't do follows from that one idea.~45m
- How models are trainedA model's behavior is not magic — it is the residue of three training stages, and knowing them tells you exactly why models behave the way they do.~45m
- The modern AI stackModel, API, chat app, agent, IDE — these are layers of a stack, and confusing them is the most common beginner mistake.~45m
- Capabilities & failure modesKnowing how a model fails is more useful than knowing how it succeeds — failure modes are predictable, and predictable failures you can design around.~45m
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