Letter from Dolly Parton to build LLMs are kinda weird

Looks awesome, but I would have learned a lot of valuable stuff. However I also think 17 year old me would have wanted to do this too. Oddly, I just remembered I did the nearest possible thing to this when I was a kid. My coat of many colors. My mama made for me. Now if only I had a genz/millennial cusp friend who wrote all her college papers on her iphone.

It's really disheartening to see how this compares to Deepseek v4 Flash. I have to use just to develop ios app. LLMs are incredibly boring to me as a technology..Not in terms of maximising future opportunities. I'm not sure what 17 year old me would have wanted to do this too.

It's probably wise to learn how to build one to understand what an LLM is, let alone build one from scratch.

Somewhere in rural America is a 17 year old and few pizzas. It's probably wise to learn how to build LLMs from scratch? Thank you in advance.