AI Engineering in 41 Minutes: From Demo to Production

AI Engineering in 41 Minutes: From Demo to Production

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AI Engineering is one of the most important skills if you want to build real AI applications with LLMs, foundation models, RAG, agents, evaluations, and production systems. In this video, I break down the key ideas from Chip Huyen’s book AI Engineering and explain how AI apps move from simple demos to reliable products.

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00:00 Intro
00:30 The Big Idea
01:42 Why AI Engineering Exists Now
02:38 Demo vs Production AI
03:17 The Full AI Engineering Lifecycle
05:00 What Is a Foundation Model?
06:10 From Language Models to Foundation Models
07:18 Tokens and Self-Supervision
08:13 Why AI Outputs Change (Sampling)
10:03 Why Hallucinations Happen
12:28 Evaluation: Measuring What Matters
13:26 Why AI Evaluation Is Hard
15:02 Exact vs Subjective Evaluation
16:09 AI as a Judge
17:17 Evaluation System Design
18:10 Model Selection Is Not Just Leaderboards
19:20 Evaluation Pipeline for Production
20:20 Improving Quality: Prompts, Context & Guardrails
20:22 Prompt Engineering
24:26 Prompt Attacks and Prompt Injection
25:20 Guardrails System Design
26:24 Why Context Matters
27:24 RAG
31:05 Retrieval Methods: BM25, Embeddings, Hybrid
33:10 Improving RAG Quality
36:06 From RAG to Agents
37:46 Agent System Design

This video is for data scientists, machine learning engineers, data analysts, software engineers, and anyone trying to understand how real AI systems are built beyond basic ChatGPT demos.

The main topics covered:
AI Engineering, LLMs, foundation models, RAG, agents, AI evaluation, hallucinations, prompt engineering, production AI systems, monitoring, feedback loops, model selection, AI apps, and how to think about building reliable AI products.

Links mentioned:

📚 Book: AI Engineering by Chip Huyen
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