Your question is Transformer Architecture Fundamentals. Take a moment with it on the right.
Talk me through your thinking if you like. When you're confident, submit your answer and I'll grade it like a real screen (7/10 or better passes).
You are discussing modern sequence models and how they differ from older recurrent approaches. The goal is to explain the core ideas clearly enough that someone could reason about when and why Transformers are used.
Explain Transformers.