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Guides and posts by roadmap step

First Break AI cohort blog — step-by-step guides that follow the roadmap. Run models locally, understand inference, and build in the open.

Cohort guides and posts are organized by the Roadmap. Start with the step you’re on.

By roadmap step

Step 1

First use of AI for coding

Set up a Quarto blog, GitHub, and use your AI IDE.

See Roadmap

Step 2

Run a model locally

Run Qwen3 0.6B in pure C. Tokens, BPE, chat templates, attention, KV cache — all in one C binary.

Read guide

Step 2

GGUF vs SafeTensors

Model weight formats compared. GGUF, SafeTensors, pickle security, quantization, mmap, and why we start with pure C.

Read guide

Step 3

Inference deep dive

vLLM, quantization, batching, APIs.

See Roadmap

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