LLMs: A Primer Presentation for Our Newest, Scariest Tool

Presentation I wrote up about LLMs back in 2025 to try and help other developers understand them mechanically and dispel a whole lot of the doom-and-gloom, kneejerk resistance to new tooling I was seeing at the time.

A comment from far in the future. When I wrote this presentation, I stopped here intentionally as a chance for an open-ended discussion about what this meant. This part ended up being far quieter than I expected, probably from the sheer scope. Asking this question in June of 2025 would be like asking, in 2008, if a site written by some dweeb in a Harvard dorm would eventually connect you to everybody you’ve ever met or sway the results of an election; it is, in the most literal sense, un-predictable.