I am in software development field which does some web products originally. Wanted to know more about AI given its popularity in recent years especially after ChatGPT coming out.

Here is my journey.

I started with a YouTube video(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flXrLGPY3SU&ab_channel=Wolfram) which explains how ChatGPT does prediction of the next word. In this video, get to know how fancy AI would be(or LLM) to make ChatGPT work. Also get to know some concepts in LLM area which laid some foundation for my further AI learning.

Thereafter get to know different LLMs such as Llama, GPT, Qwen etc to get to know some more contexts including context length, token, parameters, FLOPS, RAG, Embeddings etc. And tried some models locally with ollama help, first time to play around with local LLMs and find its facilating.

Next got to play with Jupyter Notebook which could be sued to run some instructions to complete tasks using Python. Got in touch with some platforms including LangChain, Kaggle and did some basic training of LLMs as well.

With all these knowledge, I started to build some applications with help of AI powered editors such as Cursor and Windsurf. Found out that AI is really changing our life as developers and lots of issues could be solved by AI.

The journey still goes on and find that AI really has a bright future..