Stanford's Free CS336 Course: Building LLMs from Scratch to Become an AI Architect
techNmak · x · 2026-07-30
The post highlights two AI career paths: the easily automated "API Caller" and the high-leverage "API Architect." To help developers become the latter, the author recommends Stanford's free course, CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch.
The 17-video syllabus covers:
- Data: Collection & Curation (Lec 13-14)
- Models: Building Transformers & MoE (Lec 3-4)
- Optimization: GPUs, Kernels & Parallelism (Lec 5-8)
- Inference & Alignment: Inference mechanisms (Lec 10) and RL alignment (Lec 15-17)
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