In this blog post, we will see how an LLM request and response cycle works, from the second you hit send to the moment the last word lands on your screen. I will not throw a wall of transformer math at you. Instead, we will follow one single prompt through every stage of the journey, so nothing feels abstract. A single prompt sent to a large language model passes through multiple distinct stages before a response appears on screen. The process begins with the client app building a structured ...