The staircase of discovery · 12
Climb one level at a time.
Each level is a rung of skill with AI, from your first chat up to autonomous agents. The steps inside a level are the articles that get you there.
Level 01
The Chat
Jun 8, 2026
How a chat really works
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Jun 8, 2026
What a model is and how many there are
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Jun 8, 2026
What an LLM is and its parameters
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Jun 8, 2026
Reasoning
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Jun 8, 2026
Same question, different answers
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Jun 8, 2026
The memory that remembers and forgets
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Jun 8, 2026
The system prompt, the instructions you don't see
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Jun 8, 2026
How the chat works across different models
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Jun 8, 2026
Why it makes things up, hallucination
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Jun 8, 2026
The cutoff date
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Jun 10, 2026
The prompt vs the dialogue
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Jun 12, 2026
Prompt engineering
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