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Because prompt engineering only scratches the surface. Building one from scratch (even a tiny 10M parameter model) teaches you why hallucinations happen, why context length matters, and what “emergence” actually feels like.

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Using the loss, we calculate gradients via backpropagation. Optimizers like (Adam with Weight Decay) adjust the weights of the model to reduce the error. Because prompt engineering only scratches the surface