LLM Systems Day 1 - Understanding the Stack

Day 1: Understanding the Stack

Starting my 120-day LLM Systems hands-on journey. The goal is to deeply understand every layer of building, fine-tuning, and deploying LLM-powered systems in production.

Today’s Focus

• The LLM stack overview: tokenization, embeddings, attention, decoding
• Key architectural choices (decoder-only vs encoder-decoder)
• Setting up a local inference pipeline

Key Takeaways

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Resources

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This is part of my 120 Days of LLM Systems challenge.