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Pillar 2

LLM App Fundamentals

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go from "I can call an API" to "I can ship an LLM feature." Ed Donner's course (Ollama-first, laptop-friendly) is strongest here

  • APIs, prompts, streaming, multi-provider

    Building Systems with the ChatGPT API - DeepLearning.AIvideoFREE~1h

  • Tool / function calling

    Function-calling and data extraction with LLMs - DeepLearning.AI + 🟢 OpenAI Cookbook: function callingarticleFREE~1h + read

  • Fast UIs (Gradio)

    Building Generative AI Applications with Gradio - DeepLearning.AI (or 🟢 Gradio official Quickstart docs)docsFREE~1h

  • Open-source models & HuggingFace

    Open Source Models with Hugging Face - DeepLearning.AI + 🟢 HuggingFace NLP Course Ch.1-2videoFREE~1h + 3h

  • Model selection / leaderboards

    Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard (read) + provider pricing pagesarticleFREEread

  • Structured output (JSON/Pydantic)

    Structured outputs - OpenAI docsdocsFREEread

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  • Prompt engineering patterns (few-shot, CoT, system prompts)

    ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers - DeepLearning.AI + 🟢 promptingguide.ai (read)article~1h + 1h read⚠ link unverified