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AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models — Chip Huyen

Production patterns for shipping LLM apps — RAG, evals, prompt management, the rest.

★★★★★4.7
|$55 – $65|AI & Prompt Engineering Books
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🎯 Bottom Line

The strongest "what do I do after the demo works" book on the market right now.

Best For

Devs wiring Claude / OpenAI APIs into real appsPMs scoping AI featuresAnyone past the prototype phase

Pros

  • ✓Modern (2024-2025 stack)
  • ✓Covers RAG, fine-tuning, evals, ops
  • ✓Author has shipped real systems

Cons

  • ×Code samples are sparser than Raschka
  • ×Some sections age fast

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