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- Updated Aug 26, 2026
How modern AI actually works — from the raw text a model reads, to the engines that serve it at scale, to the agents that act on your behalf. Intuition-first, with diagrams.
- 01The Big Picture
- 02What Is a Large Language Model?
- 03Tokens & Tokenization
- 04Inside the Transformer
- 05How Models Are Trained
- 06Inference: How a Model Generates Text
- 07The Inference Engine
- 08Making Models Faster & Cheaper
- 09Prompting & Context
- 10The Harness
- 11Tool Use & Function Calling
- 12What Is an Agent?
- 13Multi-Agent Systems
- 14RAG & Memory
- 15Evaluation, Safety & What's Next
The idioms, tradeoffs, and footguns that separate code that compiles from code that reads like it was written by someone who's shipped a lot of Go. Code-first, real snippets.
- 01Functional Options
- 02Interface Design
- 03Error Handling
- 04Concurrency Patterns
- 05Context
- 06Synchronization Beyond Channels
- 07Generics
- 08Performance & Memory
- 09Resiliency Patterns
- 10gRPC Patterns
- 11Background Workers & Job Processing
The arguments that outlived their authors — Socratic refutation, Aristotle's causes, the Stoic recipe, and the questions still open twenty-four centuries later. Argument-first, with diagrams.
- 01The Socratic Method
- 02The Euthyphro Dilemma
- 03The Cave & the Divided Line
- 04The Ship of Theseus
- 05Aristotle's Logic
- 06The Four Causes
- 07Virtue & the Golden Mean
- 08Phronesis: Practical Wisdom
- 09Eudaimonia Is Not Happiness
- 10What Modern Stoicism Deletes
- 11Amor Fati & the View From Above
- 12Stoicism vs Epicureanism
- 13Skepticism & the Regress
- 14Zeno's Paradoxes
- 15What Is Justice?
- 16Free Will & Compatibilism
- 17The Chinese Room & the Hard Problem
- 18Mary's Room & the Knowledge Argument