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by darepublic
243 days ago
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I don't quite understand how you get from this: > I wanted to understand how these things work by building one myself. Directly to this: What if training an LLM was as easy as npx create-next-app? I mean that the second thought seems to be the opposite of the first (what if the entirety of training llm was abstracted behind a simple command) |
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When I started, I wanted to understand LLMs deeply. But I hit a wall: tutorials were either "hello world" toys or "here's 500 lines of setup before you start."
What I needed was: "give me working code quickly, THEN let me modify and learn."
That's what create-llm does. It scaffolds the boilerplate (like create-next-app), so you can spend time learning the interesting parts: - Why does vocab size matter? (adjust config, see results) - What causes overfitting? (train on small data, see it happen) - How do different architectures perform? (swap templates, compare)
It's "easy to start, deep to master." The abstraction gets you running in 60 seconds, then you dig into the code