AI Engineering

Why I Picked It Up / How It Read

I picked this up to upskill and keep up to date with the new AI-based apps, and to deepen my understanding of how LLMs, RAG, and AI Agents work. The book read smoothly and had a decent and reasonable progression from topic to topic. It gets fairly technical in places but generally you don't need too much pre-requisite knowledge

What I Took Away

• I liked a lot the intro chapters explaining what foundational models are and roughly how they work.
• The chapters on prompt engineering and RAG were very easy to follow nad I already adopted some of the advice into my work.
• It is well enough to understand model degredation is as real with foundational models as it is with classic Machine Learning models, treating them as such and having an evalution and monitoring pipelines in place is an excellent idae.