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LLMs Explained, Part 1: How We Got Here
LLMApril 29, 2026

LLMs Explained, Part 1: How We Got Here

A simple history of AI from 1950 to 2017, written for software engineers who want to understand where today's LLMs actually came from.

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LLMs Explained, Part 2: How the Transformer Works
LLMApril 29, 2026

LLMs Explained, Part 2: How the Transformer Works

How the 2017 'Attention Is All You Need' paper threw out the RNN, what self-attention actually does, and why this one architecture became the foundation of every LLM today.

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