What Even Is AI Right Now
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- v2April 29, 2026Latest
Full rewrite. Much more detail on every section. New illustrations for tokens, context windows, embeddings, RAG, the three teaching paths, agents, and multimodal models. Added a section on reasoning models and a concrete "how to move into AI" path for software engineers.
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First version. A short, no-hype overview of where AI stood in early 2026.
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