Replace Intro Article

[paytonison]

This pull request introduces a new beginner-friendly guide to large language models (LLMs), updates the article registry and author list to include the new content and author, and removes an older introductory article on working with LLMs. The new guide provides a practical, code-first introduction, including hands-on examples in Python and JavaScript, and covers core concepts, best practices, and common pitfalls for developers.

Resolves issue #2119.

Content updates:

• Added a new article, openai-cookbook-llms-101.md, which provides a concise, practical introduction to LLMs with code examples, explanations of key concepts (tokenization, embeddings, transformer layers), and actionable advice for developers.
• Removed the older article how_to_work_with_large_language_models.md, which previously covered similar introductory material, to avoid redundancy.

Metadata and registry updates:

• Added a new author, paytonison, to authors.yaml for attribution of the new article.
• Registered the new article in registry.yaml under the appropriate tags and with author attribution.

Motivation

The introduction for the Cookbook is outdated and references old models. It needs to be revised to include GPT-5 and highlight the more advanced capabilities of LLMs, beyond just basic text generation, word prediction, and semantic analysis, especially with GPT-5.

Additionally, the original introduction sounded like it was written by a seasoned expert as an afterthought and isn't very accessible for newcomers who are interested in using the API for AI.

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Pull Request Overview

This pull request replaces an outdated introductory article about large language models with a new, more accessible beginner-friendly guide. The update aims to modernize the content with references to current models and provide a more practical, code-first approach for developers.

• Introduces a new beginner-friendly LLM guide with hands-on Python and JavaScript examples
• Removes the older introductory article to avoid content redundancy
• Updates metadata files to register the new content and author

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 4 out of 4 changed files in this pull request and generated 5 comments.

File	Description
registry.yaml	Registers the new LLM 101 article with metadata and tags
authors.yaml	Adds new author "paytonison" with profile information
articles/openai-cookbook-llms-101.md	New practical introduction to LLMs with code examples and explanations
articles/how_to_work_with_large_language_models.md	Removes the older introductory article

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[SoCal909]

🧲🔒💻

[paytonison]

i panicked and thought i leaked something. sorry.