Large Language Models in Practice (Paperback)

Paperback. Most developers learn what LLMs can do. This book teaches you howto actually build with them. Large Language Models in Practice is a hands-on engineering guidefor developers who want to go beyond ChatGPT prompts and buildreal, production-ready AI systems from scratch, with working code. You'll start with the fundamentals transformers, tokenization, embeddings, attention and progressively move into the engineeringpatterns that power real-world AI products. Every concept is pairedwith Python code you can run, modify, and ship. What's inside: - How LLMs actually work under the hood transformers, self-attention, positional encoding, and next-token prediction- Working with LLM APIs authentication, context windows, streaming, cost management, and rate limits - Prompt engineering that works zero-shot, few-shot, chain-of-thought, role-based prompting, and reusable templates- Building real AI apps chatbots, summarizers, content generators, and information extraction systems- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) vector databases, embeddings, document chunking, and full RAG pipelines- Fine-tuning open-source models for your specific use case- AI agents how to design, build, and orchestrate them- Production deployment scaling, monitoring, evaluation, and enterprise-grade architecture 10 hands-on projects including a PDF Q&A system, AI customersupport chatbot, personal research assistant, and a deployableenterprise AI assistant. This is not a theory textbook. This is the book you hand toa developer and say: build something real with it. Perfect for: software engineers, backend developers, technicalfounders, CS students, and self-taught developers who want tobuild serious AI systems no ML PhD required. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …