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LLM engineering and RAG

Prompting, structured output and retrieval-augmented generation for applications grounded in your own data.

Why it matters

Most production AI work is engineering around a model: getting the right context in, getting reliable structure out, and measuring the result.

Key ideas

  1. Prompt design and system messages
  2. Structured output
  3. Chunking and vector search
  4. Retrieval-augmented generation
  5. Long-context limits

You will be able to

  • Build a RAG pipeline
  • Cite retrieved evidence
  • Diagnose retrieval failures

Primary reading

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