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My friend applied to 200 tech jobs in two years. No PhD. No Stanford.
Last month Anthropic offered him $750,000.
I asked him how he broke in from zero.
He sent me a course that was never supposed to get out. A 3-hour video to build a full LLM from scratch.
A developer teaches you exactly how LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude are actually built.
I watched it last night.
Halfway through, I realized it's embarrassingly simple to break into an AI lab.
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• 00:00 - intro to LLMs
• 05:43 - LLM transformer architecture
• 40:24 - training the LLM
• 1:30:27 - modernizing the LLM
• 2:33:53 - scaling the LLM