Atlas

Harness Engineering

The Model Landscape

What each popular model is actually good and bad at.

You can jump straight in, but this star assumes Fine-tuning. Not recommended as a first stop.

Four layers of depth

Each layer ends with a quiz. Finish layer 4 and you own this concept.

  1. L1IntuitionA map of today's major LLM families and the axes that actually distinguish them.5m
    40 XP
  2. L2MechanicsHow dense vs. MoE architectures, training compute, and release strategy actually shape a model's behavior and cost.8m
    70 XP
  3. L3CodeWrite code to inspect a model's architecture and compute the active-vs-total parameter split for an MoE layer.12m
    110 XP
  4. L4FoundationsScaling laws, compute-optimal training, and the arithmetic behind 'how big should this model be'.15m
    180 XP

Where this leads

33 stars in the atlas.