What I learned from the book "AI Engineering" by Chip Huyen

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

I read “AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models” by Chip Huyen last year, and it made it to my books of the year 2025 list. A paragraph in a year-end list did not do it justice, so here is a longer write-up.

Between conceptual reading, side projects, and building agents at work, I have spent a good part of the last couple of years with LLMs. This book is the one that made me grok(no pun intended) the concepts!

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What I learned from the book "AI Engineering" by Chip Huyen

Introduction