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10 AI Terms That Put You Ahead of 90% of AI Developers
A beginner-friendly guide to the 10 AI terms that explain how ChatGPT, Claude, LLMs, RAG, AI agents, embeddings, tokens, and context windows actually work.
My chatbot lied to a customer. I built it myself, and I didn’t catch the lie until an angry email showed up.
I’ve spent a lot of time building AI systems . That didn’t stop a beginner-level mistake from slipping straight past me, one that a total newcomer could have avoided if someone had just explained ten words in plain English first.
Nobody explains them.
Everyone assumes you already know what a token is, why an AI hallucinates, or why RAG matters more than fine-tuning. So this is the real week I spent fixing my mistake, term by term, in the order I learned each one the hard way.
A friend who runs a small candle business from her kitchen table asked me to help her add a chatbot to her website. I said yes without thinking twice.