The Chat

First step of the staircase: from your first message to an AI chat to getting the most out of it.

12 steps

Prompt engineering
June 12, 2026
The prompt vs the dialogue
June 10, 2026
The cutoff date
June 8, 2026
Why it makes things up, hallucination
June 8, 2026
How the chat works across different models
June 8, 2026
The system prompt, the instructions you don't see
June 8, 2026
The memory that remembers and forgets
June 8, 2026
Same question, different answers
June 8, 2026
Reasoning
June 8, 2026
What an LLM is and its parameters
June 8, 2026
What a model is and how many there are
June 8, 2026
How a chat really works
June 8, 2026