Current, practical books for engineers building LLM, agent, RAG, and ML systems in production rather than just reading about AI from the sidelines.
“A current O'Reilly book focused on building applications with foundation models, selected as the practical anchor for modern AI engineering.”
“Still one of the strongest bridges from model-building to reliable, maintainable production ML systems.”
“A hands-on route through tokenization, attention, GPT-style architecture, pretraining, and fine-tuning.”
“Chosen for its practical, visual treatment of LLM workflows such as embeddings, classification, search, and generation.”
“A patterns-oriented O'Reilly guide for common GenAI application problems such as hallucination control, knowledge cutoffs, and customization.”
“Included for its end-to-end production LLM engineering emphasis, from data pipelines to deployment practices.”
“A current agent-building pick for readers working with assistants, autonomous workflows, tool use, and multi-agent orchestration.”