Cheat sheet · Beginner · 5 min
Language model vocabulary cheat sheet
The terms you will meet, defined plainly. 4 sections, 16 entries.
- Mechanics
- Training
- Behaviour
Entries 16Any assistant
Lab · Beginner · 1h
Lab: Break a model on purpose
Provoke each failure mode deliberately, record the transcript, and write the check that would have caught it.
- You are preparing to roll an assistant out to a team and need a set of reproducible failures to show them, with the check that catches each.
Tasks 4Any assistant
Project · Beginner · 4h
Project: An honest guide to assistants for your team
Write a two-page guide for your team on what your chosen assistant does well, where it fails, and the rules for using it, with every claim tested by you.
- Produce a two-page internal guide for a real team: what the assistant is, three tasks it does well with evidence from your own tests, three ways it fails with examples you produced, and five rules for use. The guide must not contain a claim you did not test yourself.
- Milestone 1: Test the strengths
- Milestone 2: Reproduce the failures
Any assistant
Learning path · Beginner · 5h
How language models actually work
A practical path from what a model is to why it fails, so you use assistants well and explain them honestly.
- Explain what a language model does and does not do, predict where it will fail, and choose when to use one.
- Skills: Explaining tokens, context and prediction, Recognising hallucination and its causes, Choosing tasks that suit a model, Reading a model card
Time 5hAny assistant

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Language model vocabulary cheat sheet

Lab: Break a model on purpose

Project: An honest guide to assistants for your team

How language models actually work