I just came back from maternity leave. And honestly? I felt like I'd missed a decade in six months. I talked about starting small in my other blog Lost in the AI Hype, I Started Small I've spent the last fifteen years designing cloud systems. And even I felt behind. AI went from a thing people were experimenting with to a thing everyone's apparently building with, and I had no idea where to start. So I did what any architect would do. I went back to first principles. I'm rebuilding my AI mental model from scratch in public. No math. No expert-level coding. Just real problems, the architecture underneath, and honest notes on where things might break. If you prefer video, please watch Episode 1 of my video series . If you prefer reading, you're in the right place. The demo: AI adapts a recipe in under a minute Before any theory, let me show you what these models can actually do.…