LLM Engineering Basics

Building WITH language models rather than just chatting with them — tokens and cost, structured output, injection risk, and why retrieval quality decides everything. The free entry to Applied LLM Engineering.

6 lessons · 4 hours · Instructor Ali · Free

Lessons

1. 1 From chatting to building: the API view
2. 2 Tokens, context and cost: the physics of the API sign in
3. 3 Structured output and the assistant loop sign in
4. 4 Prompt injection and the safety duties of builders sign in
5. 5 Grounding: RAG, and measuring retrieval before blaming the model sign in
6. 6 Evaluation, the honest market, and the road to Applied LLM Engineering sign in