Topic 01 · 5 articles

Generative AI Fundamentals

Build a clear mental model of the models, tokens, and prompts behind modern generative AI.

Start with the mental model behind generation: how models represent language, choose tokens, follow instructions, and fail. These lessons connect the vocabulary to small experiments you can run before building a larger application.

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What is Generative AI?

Understand how generative models create new text, images, audio, and code from learned patterns.

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Transformers Architecture

Learn why attention and transformers became the foundation of most modern language models.

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Tokens, Context Windows, and Temperature

Make sense of the units models read, the context they can see, and the controls that change output variety.

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Prompt Engineering Best Practices

Write clearer prompts that give models the role, task, context, constraints, and output format they need.

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Generative AI Use Cases and Limitations

Match generative AI capabilities to practical use cases while understanding where human review remains essential.

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