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WORTH TESTING · 26 OCTOBER 2026

A real Stanford lecture on LLMs and agents, wrapped in a fake '$100k agent' post

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Verdict: a clear, free primer on why few-shot prompting, step-by-step reasoning, reasoning models and agent workflows work; no coding needed to watch, but it's theory, not a how-to.

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A real Stanford lecture on LLMs and agents, wrapped in a fake '$100k agent' post: steps to try, cost and caveat

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