/Recent blog posts on rzkmakHugo (https://gohugo.io)en-usrzkmak@outlook.com (Rizki Maulana Akbar)rzkmak@outlook.com (Rizki Maulana Akbar)Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 Z/notes/llm-fundamentals-self-notes/Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 Zrzkmak@outlook.com (Rizki Maulana Akbar) Work in progress. This note is a living summary of my LLM fundamentals study material. Sections will be added and refined over time. Personal summary of the core ideas behind how LLM-based systems work: what actually goes into a request, why prompt order matters, how the context window budget works, what to do when prompting alone is not enough, and what the model file physically is. # Anatomy of a Chat Request Every chat request is assembled from five components, and your application code is the assembler:/notes/llm-fundamentals-self-notes/