Educational Suite
Understand how modern AI agents think, plan, use tools, remember information, and complete complex tasks through interactive visual workflows.
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Understand structural feedback loops and autonomy.
Send query input directly to the LLM and get output back. Zero feedback loops, zero validation gates, and zero memory.
A program routing data step-by-step through predetermined LLM calls (e.g. translate then summarize). No dynamic planning during runtime.
The LLM decides which tools to call, inspects errors, corrects its code, and runs recursively until it determines the goal is completed.
Search terminology and concepts.
The core statistical model trained on vast text data that calculates the most likely next word in a sequence.
💡 Analogy: Like a highly sophisticated autocomplete on your smartphone, but trained on the entire internet.
🔧 Example: GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Llama 3.
The textual input, instructions, and constraints sent to an LLM to guide its output.
💡 Analogy: Instructions given to an actor before they walk onto a theatrical stage.
🔧 Example: 'Act as a Python compiler. Output only valid JSON.'
An architectural component that breaks down a complex goal into smaller steps before executing them.
💡 Analogy: A project manager mapping out a Trello board before developers start writing lines of code.
🔧 Example: Decomposing 'Book travel' into: 1. Fetch flight, 2. Book hotel, 3. Send email.
The mechanism that allows an agent to persist facts, variables, and messages across multiple model invocations.
💡 Analogy: A clipboard that the AI writes details on so it doesn't forget them when it switches tabs.
🔧 Example: Storing 'User name is Sarah' in a key-value store during a chat session.
The maximum capacity of text (measured in tokens) an LLM can parse and generate in a single query.
💡 Analogy: The size of a student's desk. If the desk is full, they must discard old papers to make space for new ones.
🔧 Example: Gemini 1.5 Pro supporting up to 2 million tokens of active text context.
A method that searches documents in a database and injects relevant paragraphs into the prompt to prevent hallucinations.
💡 Analogy: An open-book exam where the student searches the textbook for the correct answer instead of guessing.
🔧 Example: Searching a company HR handbook PDF and appending the matches to the chat prompt.
Mathematical representations of words or sentences as arrays of numbers, showing semantic closeness.
💡 Analogy: Representing recipes by coordinates on a flavor map (sweetness, spiciness, saltiness) to group similar foods.
🔧 Example: Converting 'King' and 'Queen' into similar arrays like [0.22, 0.81, -0.45] representing royalty.
A database optimized for storing mathematical embeddings and performing rapid similarity searches.
💡 Analogy: A library where books aren't sorted by title, but rather clustered in 3D space by topic similarity.
🔧 Example: Pinecone, Qdrant, Milvus, pgvector.
A digital bridge allowing software programs to exchange structured actions and variables.
💡 Analogy: A restaurant waiter taking your order to the kitchen and bringing back the hot meal.
🔧 Example: Sending Stripe a transaction ID to trigger an invoice cancellation.
The capability where an LLM writes down a structured command (like JSON) specifying which API to execute and what variables to pass.
💡 Analogy: A smart mechanic selecting a wrench from their toolkit instead of using their bare hands.
🔧 Example: LLM outputting: { 'call': 'WeatherAPI', 'location': 'London' } to fetch local temperatures.
A loop where the agent inspects its own work, checks assertions, or runs tests to verify output accuracy before delivery.
💡 Analogy: A writer proofreading their draft twice before sending it to the editor.
🔧 Example: Checking if code compiles locally and editing the lines if compiler warnings are detected.
Pre-processing or post-processing filters that block unsafe prompts or prevent the model from outputting sensitive details.
💡 Analogy: Safety rails on a winding mountain road that prevent cars from sliding off the cliff.
🔧 Example: Blocking requests asking for passwords, or censoring output matching database credit card structures.
Models configured to output their detailed chain-of-thought steps before printing the final solution.
💡 Analogy: A math student showing every single step of algebra on the whiteboard rather than just the final number.
🔧 Example: DeepSeek R1 or OpenAI o1 calculating moves in a chess match.
When an LLM generates facts, dates, links, or code libraries that look highly confident but are entirely made up.
💡 Analogy: A confident salesperson making up a fake delivery date to secure a contract.
🔧 Example: AI suggesting a non-existent npm library called 'react-fast-visualizer-easy'.
Adapting a pre-trained model to specific formats, styles, or private vocabularies by training it on a smaller curated dataset.
💡 Analogy: Sending a general doctor to a 6-month intensive training program to become a cardiology specialist.
🔧 Example: Training Llama-3 on a collection of historical court rulings to match legal style.
An autonomous software loop powered by an LLM that runs planning, tool calls, and reflection to achieve a user goal.
💡 Analogy: A smart robotic vacuum. You set a goal ('Clean floor'), and it navigates obstacles, uses tools (vacuum), and docks itself.
🔧 Example: An autonomous developer agent fixing git repository issues on its own.
A predictable, hard-coded sequence of LLM prompts and API calls without autonomous decision loops.
💡 Analogy: An assembly line conveyor belt. Code goes from Step A to Step B, with no deviation in direction.
🔧 Example: Translating a blog post to French, formatting it as HTML, and publishing it.
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