Homework for Class 3
- Set at least one Grok Bot to help you out. Share your Grok Bot in the #homework channel by Class 3. We’ll pick the coolest Grok Bot in the cohort, and the winner gets a free month of Grok Bot.
- Make sure your homework automation posts to the #homework channel every day, and sends us an email with an update on your progress. If your automation isn’t working, ask Codex to look at past automation runs, and help you debug why the automation isn’t working.
- Run the agent design game on your goals again. Pick a problem in your life, work through it with your agent, and spend several hours iterating on the solution.
- Prepare to show your work in demos next class. Demos will be done in groups of 3-4 students, with volunteers showing the whole class something they created in the past week.
- Memorize the terms in the attached glossary sheet. We’ll do a short quiz at the start of class 3 on these terms.
Study Guide for Class 3’s Quiz Ten terms on the model, agents, and tools. The sheet for the Class 3 quiz. One page, PDF. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Send Codex the following questions, and ask it to explain them to you (and ask follow up questions) until you feel satisfied with your understanding:
- What is a token? Why does the model count in tokens instead of words, and why do tokens cost money?
- What is inference? What’s the difference between training a model and running one?
- How is a model trained? Where does its knowledge come from?
- What is RLHF? Why are models polite and helpful, and why are they sometimes sycophantic?
- What is a knowledge cutoff? Why doesn’t my agent know about things that happened last week, and what can I do about it?
- What is a tool? What tools does the agent I use have?
- What is a tool call? What actually happens when the model “uses” a tool?
- What is the agentic loop? What happens between the moment I send a prompt and the moment I get an answer?
- What is computer use? How is an agent using a computer different from an agent calling a tool?
- What is a skill? How is it different from a prompt, and when would I write one?