Episode Details

Most explanations of how a language model works show you a diagram. This one hands you a coat and walks you through the building. Starting from the token "is" in the sentence "The capital of the state containing Dallas is," the episode follows a single vector through eighty layers of a transformer — the Look Back stops where attention pulls in what earlier words are offering, the memory rooms where facts like Texas get written down, and the causal mask that means the future is a wall. Along the way: why the model doesn't narrow as it descends, how sixty-four heads per layer learn jobs nobody assigned them, what Anthropic's interventions on Claude revealed about multi-hop reasoning, and why the model doesn't arrive at the answer so much as murmur its way toward it. Episode 6169 — myweirdprompts.com/n/6169 (permanent short link: myweirdprompts.com/702166)