Phase 8 · Module 15 of 15Assembles all four quadrants
AI and LLM Literacy
How does an AI feature fit into a normal software product?
By the end: You can explain the foundational concepts behind modern AI applications and understand why they behave differently from traditional software.
L1A different kind of software~8 min○L2Prompts, tokens, and the window~8 min○L3When AI is wrong (and why testing it is strange)~8 min○L4Grounding and shaping: RAG and fine-tuning~7 min○L5The AI feature is ordinary software~8 min○
What lights on your map here
artificial intelligencemachine-learning modellarge language modeltraininginferenceprompttoken (LLM)context windowoutput generationhallucinationprobabilistic behaviorevaluationguardrailsfine-tuningretrieval-augmented generationAI APIAI as a third-party serviceGPUAI latencyAI costhuman reviewAI privacy considerations
Recognition terms — you'll know they exist
embeddings