Tech words, explained in layman's terms. One new word every week.https://laymanterms.dev/https://laymanterms.dev/terms/llm/https://laymanterms.dev/terms/llm/AI that has read an enormous amount of text, and writes by predicting the next word, again and again. Your phone's keyboard guesses your next word. An LLM does the same trick, after reading more than any person could in a thousand lifetimes.Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://laymanterms.dev/terms/generative-ai/https://laymanterms.dev/terms/generative-ai/AI that creates new text, pictures, music or code, instead of just sorting or predicting. For years, AI mostly answered questions about things that already existed, like “is this spam?”. Generative AI makes something that didn't exist a moment ago.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://laymanterms.dev/terms/machine-learning/https://laymanterms.dev/terms/machine-learning/Teaching a computer by letting it practise. It guesses, checks how wrong it was, adjusts, and repeats millions of times. Nobody gets a paper ball into the bin on the first throw. You miss, notice how you missed, and adjust. Machine learning is a computer doing exactly that, millions of times.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://laymanterms.dev/terms/ai/https://laymanterms.dev/terms/ai/Software that learns from examples, instead of following rules someone wrote down. Nobody teaches a toddler what a dog is with a rulebook. AI learns the same way they do.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT