Making a vintage LLM from scratch

"The code is semi-vibe-coded with whatever LLM I had with VS-Code and PI (OpenRouter models)."

I appreciate the honesty, but now there's no journey, and that's what I'm interested in. I can ask a LLM myself.

There are certain things you can only truly learn by doing. I remember doing Linux From Scratch over a weekend and the depth of linux that I still understand to this day.

Thanks for the writeup. A more granular followup would be cool too.

I am creating my tiny Llama 340M base model from scratch. If you're curious about the steps, challenges and cost, read on. I am still working on the instruct model.

Nice project. I’m curious to see how it writes after instruct.