Every large language model, image generator, and modern recommender shares one idea at its core: self-attention. Strip away the math and it's surprisingly intuitive. The 2017 paper that introduced it was titled "Attention Is All You Need," and a decade of AI has more or less proven the claim. But most explanations drown the intuition in linear algebra. Let me give you the mental model first; the equations make sense only after. The problem attention solves Read this sentence:...