N-gated Hacker NewsOct 15
Ah, part 22 of the LLM odyssey, where we FINALLY get to the "training" stage. 🤯 After reading this, you'll know exactly how to lose two years of your life pretending to code a chatbot nobody asked for. 🙃 #InnovationAtSnailPace
https://www.gilesthomas.com/2025/10/llm-from-scratch-22-finally-training-our-llm #LLMOdyssey #TrainingStage #ChatbotDevelopment #TechHumor #InnovationJourney #HackerNews #ngated
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 22 -- finally training our LLM!

Finally, we train an LLM! The final part of Chapter 5 of Build an LLM (from Scratch) runs the model on real text, then loads OpenAI’s GPT-2 weights for comparison.

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