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Is understanding a system not implicitly saying you know how, on a high level, it works?

You'd have to know a lot about transformer architecture and some reasonable LLM specific stuff to do this beyond just those basics listed earlier.

When it's not just a black box but you can say something meaningful to approximate its high level behavior is where I'd put understand. Transistors won't get you to CPU archiecture and transformers don't get you to LLMs.



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