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Storyboard Explainers

The visual explainers that live inside the Systems articles, gathered so you can find one by what it shows. Each belongs to the article that declares it, and opening one takes you there rather than to a copy.

AI Agents vs AI Workflows

comparisonThe main difference between workflows and agents is who chooses the next step.Contrasting a sequence fixed in advance with a path selected during the run.

From Agent Intent to Governed Execution

diagramEach arrow is a place the sequence can stop.Each arrow is a place the sequence can stop.

From Text to Tokens

diagramText becomes integersThe IDs shown are invented for the illustration. Real vocabularies differ between models.

Tool Use: When Language Triggers Actions

diagramThe model emits a request.The model emits a request. The application performs the action and returns the result.

Training, Fine-Tuning, and Inference

diagramWhere parameters change and where they do notTwo stages write to the parameters. The third only reads them.

What an AI Model Actually Is

diagramOne step of generationOne step. The scores are illustrative, but the shape is real: a ranking over possible next pieces, then a selection.

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