What is a language model?
A machine that guesses what comes next, very well.
A large language model (LLM), like Gemini, Claude or GPT, learns from huge amounts of text to do one thing: predict what comes next. Guess first, then reveal what a real one wrote.
- The capital of India is
- for i in range(
- Mera naam Rahul hai aur main
- The time complexity of binary search is O(
- Dear Sir, I am writing to
Real continuations from gemini-3.5-flash-lite, 2026-10-21
Answering questions, writing code, even deciding to use a tool: it's all the same skill, continuing text one piece at a time. Act 1 looks at those pieces up close.
When a model writes code, what is it actually doing?