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AI research · LLMs · building in public

# Recently I have been interested in …

Notes from the bench: how large language models actually work, what it costs to run them, and what I learn **building AI products at Konigle**.

LLM internals Agents & tooling Applied ML

## Interactive explainers

[All explainers →](/inside-llm)

[ ______ Inside a LLM Concept · Oct 2026 Inside CLIP Train a tiny CLIP in your browser: image and text encoders, cosine similarity, the symmetric contrastive loss, text-to-image search and zero-shot classification, with PyTorch code. Open explainer → ](/inside-llm/inside-clip) [ ______ Inside a LLM Concept · Oct 2026 Inside an LSTM Watch an LSTM read a sentence word by word: forget, input and output gates, the cell state and vanishing gradients, computed live with hand-set weights and PyTorch code. Open explainer → ](/inside-llm/inside-an-lstm) [ ______ Inside a LLM Concept · Oct 2026 Inside a Transformer Follow one sentence from raw text to a next-token prediction. A tiny GPT-style transformer computes tokens, embeddings, attention, MLP and softmax live in your browser. Open explainer → ](/inside-llm/inside-a-transformer)