AI Basics

A ground-up introduction to working with AI tools — from prompting fundamentals to integrating AI into your development workflow.

in progress

The Curriculum

The substratewhat the thing is
The interfacehow you talk to it
The representationshow it "thinks"
Extending the modelgiving it more to work with
Building with modelsthe engineering layer
The meta layerthings people ask but rarely get good answers to

Tokens, Tokenizers, and How Claude Counts Them

How subword tokenization algorithms work under the hood, why they shape context window economics and model accuracy, and what Claude's proprietary tokenizer changes mean for your API budget.

May 13

Research, in arcs

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AI Basics

The Curriculum