llms-explained4 articles
- LLMMarch 24, 2026
LLMs Explained, Part 4: The Platform Era
From GPT-4 to today's reasoning models, agents, and coding tools. How LLMs went from a single chatbot to the platform every product is built on.
10 min read - LLMMarch 20, 2026
LLMs Explained, Part 3: How LLMs Got Useful
From GPT-3 to ChatGPT. The story of how scale, instruction tuning, and human feedback turned a text-completion engine into the assistant a hundred million people started using overnight.
10 min read - LLMMarch 16, 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.
14 min read - LLMMarch 12, 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.
15 min read