Looks like magic
2026-05-28 · 12-min read
How are tokens generated? Magic, obviously. A talk in eight beats that opens with a self-writing scroll and an owl on the windowsill — and closes with the spell collapsing into a loop you already understand.
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Foundations
Mental models the rest of VibeFest builds on. We write a piece here when we figure out something the program rests on — and we want students to be able to find it before, during, and after the room.
Why do these things hallucinate?
2026-05-27 · 10-min read
Hallucinations aren’t a bug. They fall directly out of how language models work — and once you see why, the confident-sounding mistakes stop being mysterious. Ten minutes on what’s happening inside, and what to do about it.