AI Concepts Decoded

The six words you need to parse every other AI conversation: model, prompt, context, token, hallucination, inference. · ~2 min

Chatbot, assistant, copilot, agent, autonomous agent — five shelves, sorted by how much acts without you. · ~2 min

Prompt engineering, context engineering, RAG, fine-tuning, evals, LLMOps, MCP, tool use — what each actually does. · ~2 min

AI-assisted, agentic, vibe, and spec-driven — four words for 'coding with AI' that mean very different things. · ~2 min

Who builds the systems, and the vocabulary that shows up in procurement, legal, and compliance reviews. · ~3 min

A pocket decoder: when I hear X, ask Y — and the library chapter that teaches X in depth. · ~3 min