Notes on ‘AI Engineering’ (Chip Huyen) chapter 1

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This article presents notes and a group discussion summary from Chapter 1 of Chip Huyen's 'AI Engineering' book. It covers the rationale for the term 'AI Engineering' over alternatives, key concepts like foundation models and model adaptation techniques (prompting vs. fine-tuning), and the distinction from traditional ML Engineering. It also details the proposed AI Engineering stack, including the Application Development and Model Development layers.

Notes on ‘AI Engineering’ (Chip Huyen) chapter 1

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