Module 1 · Beginner-friendly

How LLMs Actually Work

Before you build anything with AI, you should understand what is really happening inside the model. This module removes the magic: by the end, words like transformer, token and embedding are tools you think with, not buzzwords you nod along to.

A robotic hand reaching into a glowing neural network
Why Start Here

Nothing later should ever feel like magic.

Most AI courses jump straight to tools and prompts. We start one level deeper, because engineers who understand why a model behaves the way it does can debug, design and reason where others can only guess.

No prior coding experience is required. Every idea is built up from scratch, hands-on, with mentors in the room.

What You'll Cover

The foundations, one honest step at a time

1

Transformers & Attention

How the transformer architecture works and why attention lets a model weigh every word against every other word — the idea behind the entire modern AI wave.

2

Tokens & Embeddings

What text becomes inside a model: how sentences are split into tokens, and how embeddings turn meaning into geometry that a machine can compute with.

3

Pretraining & Fine-tuning

How models learn from vast text corpora, what fine-tuning and RLHF actually change, and why the same base model can behave so differently after alignment.

4

Context Windows

What a context window really is, why it limits what a model can "remember" in a conversation, and how that shapes every application you will ever build.

5

Sampling & Temperature

Why the same prompt gives different answers: top-p, top-k and temperature, and how to choose settings deliberately instead of accepting defaults.

6

Why Models Hallucinate

The honest truth about hallucination — where it comes from, why it cannot be fully "fixed", and the engineering patterns that keep it under control.

By the End

You will be able to…

Next module: once the foundations are solid, you learn to direct models with precision in Prompt Engineering & LLM APIs.

Start With Real Understanding

Module 1 is where every Bonami graduate begins. If you are ready to learn AI properly — from the inside out — we would be glad to have you.