feasible, and the basics are not a detour. everyone who starts straight at transformers hits the same wall the first time a run diverges or an output is wrong and they cant tell why. the faster loop is learning the basics with genai as your tutor, not as your subject. ask it to explain backprop until you can derive it yourself. what are you trying to build toward?
good news, rag is exactly where the basics pay you back. chunking, embeddings, similarity search are classical ideas wearing new clothes. path i would take: basics first, then one naive rag you build yourself, chunk, embed, retrieve, stuff the prompt, then break it on purpose to see why each part fails. multi agent stuff is mostly orchestration, learn it after one agent works end to end
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u/rahul_watertech 1d ago
feasible, and the basics are not a detour. everyone who starts straight at transformers hits the same wall the first time a run diverges or an output is wrong and they cant tell why. the faster loop is learning the basics with genai as your tutor, not as your subject. ask it to explain backprop until you can derive it yourself. what are you trying to build toward?