Instead of watching 2 hours of Netflix tonight, watch this Stanford lecture. It’s the clearest end-to-end explanation I’ve seen of how ChatGPT and Claude are actually built.
From tokenization and BPE all the way to the transformer architecture, training pipeline, and next-token decoding.
Whether you’ve never written a line of AI code or you’ve been shipping agents every day, this 2h 34min session will click things into place that most people take years to figure out.
Bookmark it and clear the time this weekend, because this might be the single most valuable thing you learn all month.