Building a full LLM from scratch over weekends with Stanford's CS336
stanfordnlp · x · 2026-09-11
Shared via Stanford NLP's account: the author spent several weekends building an end-to-end language model from scratch using Stanford's CS336 course.
Despite having seen attention and transformers explained countless times, constructing the entire system with no details spared proved a very different experience; details are expanded in the thread.
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