Episode
Language Model Builder with Felix Rieseberg
Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman · Aug 6, 2026 · 36 min
Felix Rieseberg came to computing through poetry, and that background gives him a unique lens for explaining language models. A longtime engineer, Felix now gets to watch AI evolve from the inside. In this episode, Scott and Felix explore why language models are surprisingly easy to understand despite feeling magical, what it's like to train a model from noise to coherence, and the bigger…