From the Packt Bookshelf: The LLM Engineer’s Handbook by Paul Iusztin and Maxime Labonne

If you’ve been anywhere near applied LLM research this year, you’ve heard the buzz around The LLM Engineer’s Handbook — and for good reason. Written by two of the sharpest minds in the field, Maxime Labonne and Paul Iusztin, the book quickly became a bestseller and a genuine “talk of the town” in AI engineering circles.

In this excerpt, Maxime and Paul c…