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I Built a Free LLM Curriculum Because Every Tutorial Online Sucks — Here's What I Learned

I spent 3 months last year jumping between tutorials, YouTube videos, and blog posts trying to learn how to build with LLMs. Here's what I found:

Most tutorials are garbage. They fall into one of three categories:

The API-caller's paradise: "Just import OpenAI, call the API, you're done!" Yeah, great. You can now build a glorified chatbot. Congratulations. But what happens when your model hallucinates? What do you do when you need to fine-tune? When you need to deploy? When you need safety guardrails? Crickets.

The academic wormhole: Other resources go the opposite direction. Dense mathematical derivations of transformers. Pages of backpropagation formulas. LoRA papers. You learn the theory but have no idea how to actually use any of it. You're drowning in math and getting nowhere.