Building LLM Powered Applications: Create intelligent apps and agents with large language models

by Valentina Alto

Genres: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science

342 pages, Paperback

Published May 22, 2024

Reviews

[Mikhail Filatov · Rating 3 out of 5]

The author gives some interesting business-related examples, like invoice processing and covers many topics in prompt engineering, agents, etc.
There are quite a lot of repetition in her examples -e.g., for every example she describes how to build almost the same UX.
But the main issue, imho, is her avoidance of “hallucinations”. Except mentioning it a bit in prompt engineering chapter all her agents plan everything write, LLMs always provide a right result.

[Jack Murphy · Rating 2 out of 5]

A shallow piece of work that aggregates information available from API docs. Nothing insightful or deep.

[Crystal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Incredible book with great examples and knowledge about LLMs. Highly recommend

[HonTran · Rating 5 out of 5]

An useful book

[Ahmed Ouda · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked it a lot as a good start to expand my software engineering mindset and to integrate the LLM knowledge into it.
I recommend it to all software engineers who want to find out more about LLMs without diving too deep in the beginning.

[Asim Ghaffar · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book strikes a good balance between theory and hands-on implementation. Author provides clear explanations of LLM concepts while demonstrating their application through well-structured example apps. The book covers frameworks like LangChain and practical prompt engineering techniques, making it a useful resource for developers looking to integrate LLMs into real-world solutions. A solid read for beginners and intermediate practitioners exploring AI-powered applications.