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Nov 12, 2026
Base, Instruct, and Reasoning Models: What the Labels Actually Mean
Understand base, instruction-tuned, and reasoning model labels through Qwen examples, chat templates, and a comparison of thinking modes.
LLMsAI engineeringInstruction tuningReasoning
Nov 10, 2026
What Is an LLM? A Mental Model for Software Engineers
Follow a delivery prompt through tokenization, embeddings, attention, and token generation to understand an LLM and the application around it.
LLMsAI engineeringTransformers