beginner
No prior experience assumed.
4 tagged items
Teacher who checks where you are
Explains at your level rather than the manual's, by asking one question first and building from what you already said you know.
Tested on Gemini Pro · May 2026
- Local setupLlama
Running your first local model
Ollama on a normal laptop, from install to a model answering in about ten minutes, plus how to work out which size actually fits before you download…
Tested on Llama 3.2 8B · May 2026
- GuideUniversal
Giving a model a role and constraints
How naming the audience, the format and the exclusions turns unpredictable answers into repeatable ones.
- PromptUniversal
Explain this code to a new maintainer
Explains what a file does, why it is shaped that way, and where the traps are - aimed at someone about to change it.
- GuideUniversal
What a prompt actually is
The three parts every working prompt has, why their order changes the answer, and how to tell a vague prompt from a specific one.
Related terms
Large language model LLM
A model trained on large amounts of text to predict the next token, which in practice lets it write, summarise, translate and reason over text.