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Next-Token Prediction: How an AI Actually Writes Text (Not Magic — Just Probability)
Published on July 23, 2026By DEV Community
📺 Prefer to watch? 90-second YouTube Short · 💬 Telegram Originally published on software-engineer-blog.com. Ask an AI the same question twice. Get two different answers. That's not a glitch you tolerate — it's the entire mechanism working exactly as designed. Start below the buzzword: a language model never sees a finished sentence. It only ever answers one tiny question, over and over — given everything written so far, what's the next chunk of text? One-line mental model: the model outputs a
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