Glossary
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001What Is an LLM?Termβββ002Tokens (and Why They Cost Money)Termβββ003Context WindowTermβββ004What Is a Prompt?Termβββ005System Prompt vs. User PromptTermβββ006Hallucination: Why AI Confidently LiesTermβββ007What Is an API? (Explained Without Jargon)Termβββ008MCP (Model Context Protocol): How AI Tools ConnectTermβββ009What Is an AI Agent? (vs. a Chatbot)Conceptβββ010The Agent Loop: Think β Act β Check β RepeatConceptβββ011Vibe Coding: When It Works, When It Bites YouConceptβββ012Claude Code: Anthropic's CLI AgentGuideβββ013CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md: Give Your Agent Memory & RulesGuideβββ014Pattern: Plan First, Then CodePrompt patternβββ015Pattern: Feed Context Instead of Asking VaguelyPrompt patternβββ016Loops for Agents: Letting AI Iterate AutonomouslyConceptβββ017Hermes: An Agent That Grows With YouTermβββ018OpenClaw: An Open-Source Personal AI AssistantTermβββ019Model Lifecycle: Models Launch, Change, and Get RetiredConceptβββ020Cost Control for AI AgentsGuideβββ021Security in Vibe CodingGuideβββ022What Are Subagents?Conceptβββ023Guardrails for Autonomous AgentsConceptβββ024Installing Claude Code (Step by Step)Guideβββ025Which Model, Which Plan?Guideβββ026Git & GitHub for Vibe CodersGuideβββ027Agent Stuck? Here's How to Get UnstuckGuideβββ028Getting Your Project Online (Deployment)Guideβββ029Slash Commands, Hooks & More: Steering Claude CodeGuideβββ030Skills: Knowledge Your Agent Can LoadTermβββ031Reading Benchmarks Without Getting FooledGuideβββ032RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)Conceptβββ033Embeddings β text as numbersTermβββ034Fine-tuning β training a model furtherConceptβββ035Prompt injectionConceptβββ036Structured outputsTermβββ037Evals β systematically testing prompts and modelsConceptβββ038Git worktrees for parallel AI agentsGuideβββ039Hooks in Claude CodeGuideβββ040Multi-agent patternsConceptβββ041Context strategies for agentsConceptβββ042Tool Use: How LLMs Call ToolsConceptβββ043Computer Use: When AI Controls Mouse and KeyboardConceptβββ044Sandboxing: Why Agents Should Run IsolatedConceptβββ045Securing Agents in PracticeGuideβββ046Model Routing: The Right Model for the Right TaskConceptβββ047Caching Strategies: Prompt Caching & Context CachingConceptβββ048Plugins: Extensions for AI Coding ToolsTermβββ049Headless Mode: Running Agents Without InteractionGuideβββ050Permission Modes for AgentsGuideβββ051Artifacts: Generated DeliverablesTermβββ052Writing Your Own Commands: Save Recurring PromptsGuideβββ053Agent Teams: Multiple Agents, One ProjectConceptβββ054CI/CD with Agents: AI in the PipelineGuideβββ055Prompt Structures: Layout That Improves ResultsPrompt patternβββ056Code Review with AI: Fresh Eyes Instead of Self-GradingGuideβββ057Debugging with AI Agents: Systematic, Not GuessworkGuideβββ058Testing with Agents: Generate Tests and Use Them as a GateGuideβββ059Maintaining Documentation with AIGuideβββ060Batch Processing: Automating Many Similar TasksConceptβββ061Managing API Keys SecurelyGuideβββ062Running AI Agents in Large MonoreposGuideβββ063Safe Refactoring with AI AgentsGuideβββ064Understanding and Modernizing Old Codebases with AIGuideβββ065How AI Agents Remember ThingsConceptβββ066Cutting Agent Costs: A Practical ChecklistGuideβββ067Security Audits with AI: Checking Code for VulnerabilitiesGuideβββ068Databases with Agents: Safe, Not RiskyGuideβββ069Understanding Unfamiliar Code with AIGuideβββ070Frontend with AI: Screenshots as FeedbackGuideβββ071Pair Programming Patterns with AIConceptβββ072Building Your Own Agents with the Claude Agent SDKGuideβββ073Writing Your Own MCP ServerGuideβββ074What Is Google Antigravity?Termβββ075Agent Observability: Seeing What Your Agent Actually DoesGuideβββ076Running Open Models Locally (Ollama & Co.)Guideβββ077Defending Against Prompt Injection in PracticeGuideβββ078Rolling Out AI Coding Tools to a TeamGuideβββ079Building a Simple RAG System YourselfGuideβββ080Getting Data from Websites with AgentsGuideβββ081Finding and Fixing Performance Problems with AI AgentsGuideβββ082Terminal Basics for BeginnersGuideβββ083AI Coding IDE vs. CLI: Two Ways to Work With an AgentConceptβββ084Rate Limits and Quotas: Why AI Tools Sometimes Say Slow DownTermβββ085Temperature and Sampling: Why the Same Prompt Gives Different AnswersTermβββ086Vector Databases: Where Embeddings Actually LiveTermβββ087Chunking Strategies: How to Split Text for RAGConceptβββ088Human-in-the-Loop: Where People Should Still Check the WorkConceptβββ089Data Privacy and AI Tools: What Actually Leaves Your MachineGuideβββ090MCP Security: The Risks of Connecting Tools to an AgentConceptβββ091SWE-bench, Terminal-Bench & Co.: Reading Coding-Agent BenchmarksConceptβββ092Few-Shot Examples: Show, Don't Just TellPrompt patternβββ093Role Prompts: What "You Are an Expert..." Actually ChangesPrompt patternβββ094Self-Critique Loops: Have the Model Check Its Own WorkPrompt patternβββ095Forcing Output Formats: From Prompt Tricks to Guaranteed SchemasPrompt patternβββ096Reasoning Models: When a Model Thinks Before It AnswersTermβββ097Mixture of Experts: Huge Models That Only Use a Slice of ThemselvesTermβββ098Streaming: Why Answers Appear Word by WordTermβββ099Quantization: Squeezing Model Weights Down to FitTermβββ100From GitHub Issue to Pull Request: Letting an Agent Do the WorkGuideβββ101Checkpoints and Rollbacks: Your Undo Button for Agent WorkGuideβββ102Web Search and Grounding: Letting Agents Fetch Current FactsConceptβββ103Knowledge Distillation: Training a Small Model to Copy a Big OneTermβββ104Speculative Decoding: A Small Model Guesses, the Big One ChecksTermβββ105Optimizing Latency: Making Agents Feel FastGuideβββ106AI-Generated Code and Licensing: Who Actually Owns It?Conceptβββ107Retrieval Evaluation: Is Your RAG System Finding the Right Thing?Conceptβββ108Agents Across Multiple RepositoriesGuideβββ109Fine-Tuning or Prompting? A Decision GuideGuideβββ110Red-Teaming Your Own Agent SetupGuideβββ111Prompt Versioning: Treating Prompts Like CodeGuideβββShowing 111 of 111 entries