// Hacker Noon · 28 February 2026

The Simplest Way to Understand How LLMs Actually Work!

Transformers use a clever trick: for every word (technically tokens), the model creates three different representations: Q, K, V. The model compares the query from one word against the keys of all other words. This produces ATTENTION SCORES

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