Thank you for attending Back to Basics: Build Your Own LLM from Scratch

I sent this email to all workshop attendees. It made sense to publish it as a post as well. Thank you for attending the “Back to Basics: Build Your Own LLM from Scratch” session. It was great to see so much curiosity and many questions in the room, the feedback many of you shared echoed this sentiment. I’m really glad you found it useful. As we discussed during the session, I have put together a detailed blog post that walks through everything we covered, including the slides. You can also find the code from the sessions on GitHub and Codeberg. Blog with slides and code: https://thejeshgn.com/2026/06/14/back-to-basics-build-your-own-llm-from-scratch/ GitHub: https://github.com/thejeshgn/workshop-back-basics-llm-build-scratch Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/thejeshgn/workshop-back-basics-llm-build-scratch I would also like all of you to continue building on what you learned. You could do that by just forking the code above and adding more features. Some ideas to improve are Swap the…