AI Concepts ⁽²⁾

Aaron West 23 June 2026

What Is a Large Language Model, Without the Hype

A large language model is a system that has been trained to do one deceptively simple thing: predict the next word. Show it a stretch of text, and it guesses what most likely comes next, then it guesses again, and again, one piece at a…

Aaron West 20 June 2026

What Is an AI Agent? The Difference Between a Chatbot, an Assistant, and an Agent

An AI agent is a system that takes a goal, breaks it into steps, uses tools to carry those steps out, and decides on its own what to do next based on what just happened. That last part is the whole difference. A chatbot answers…