Q, K, V : The Three Things Every Great Tech Lead...

Introduction I’ve been thinking about transformer architecture a lot lately not just as an ML practitioner, but as someone who has spent years in engineering teams, watching how the best tech leads operate. And one day it just clicked a great tech lead behaves almost exactly like the self attention mechanism in a transformer. Not as a loose metaphor, but as a surprisingly precise structural analogy. Bear with me. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. A quick refresher on self attention In a trans