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🎂Story 10 min readMay 1, 2026Published on Medium

I went from cake decorator to working in AI. Still not entirely sure how. Here's what I know.

Six months ago I was decorating cakes. Now I help build AI for hospitals. Here's what jumping in headfirst taught me about why understanding AI matters more than fearing it.

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Built From Scratch.

I went from cake decorator to working in AI. Still not entirely sure how. Here's what I know.

What Actually Is a Large Language Model?

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