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AI Engineering
Chip Huyen's guide to building on foundation models: evaluation first, prompt engineering, RAG, agents, fine-tuning trade-offs, inference optimization and the feedback loop with users.
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Key idea
Prereqs: LLM basics; Python. Next: LLM capstones; Hinton, LeCun & Bengio. Book: Chip Huyen, *AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models* (O'Reilly, 2025).Next: 1. The stack