Fourth Industrial Revolution

Summary : This is practical advice for building reliable LLM applications in Python. Learn secure secret handling, few-shot prompting, efficient fine-tuning (LoRA), quantization for local inference, and strategies to manage the model context window. First, view the 7-minute Intro to LLMs in Python video for explanations. Then read on. 1. Treat API keys like real secrets Never hard-code API keys in source files. Store keys in environment variables and load them at runtime. That keeps credentials out of your repository and reduces the risk of accidental leaks. Example commands: export OPENAI_API_KEY="your_key_here" # Linux / macOS set OPENAI_API_KEY="your_key_here" # Windows (Command Prompt) For production, use a secure secrets manager (Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault) and avoid committing any credential material to version control. 2. Guide models without heavy fine-tuning: few-shot prompting You can shape an LLM's behavior by giving it examples i...

Summary : A clear post about the core concepts behind generative AI - emergent abilities, chain-of-thought, hallucinations and RAG, human-alignment via RLHF, and foundation models. Practical examples and tips for using these ideas responsibly and effectively. Introduction Generative AI tools like ChatGPT feel effortless: you type, they answer. That ease hides a complex stack of engineering and surprising mechanics. Understanding how these models work helps you get better results, spot their limits, and use them safely. View the Generative AI Builder's Journey first. Next, this post explains five essential concepts that drive generative AI today and what they mean for everyday users and builders. 1. Bigger Is Not Just Better - It Can Be Unpredictably Different In many systems, adding scale produces steady improvement. With large language models (LLMs), scale sometimes unlocks new, unexpected skills called emergent abilities. A small model might fail entirely at a task, while...

Summary : Five surprising truths about how AI language models really work — from tokens and sudden, scale-driven abilities to why they sometimes "hallucinate", how you can program them with plain language, and how retrieval systems make them more reliable. Introduction If you've used tools like ChatGPT, you know how effortlessly they can write an email, generate code, or explain a concept. That ease feels close to magic. Under the surface, however, these systems run on patterns, probabilities, and careful engineering. Understanding a few core ideas will help you use them smarter and more safely. View my  LLM Concepts video below and then read on. 1. They Don’t See Words, They See Tokens When you type a sentence, you see words and spaces. A large language model (LLM) processes a sequence of tokens. Tokens are the smallest pieces the model works with — sometimes a whole word, sometimes a subword fragment. For example, “unbelievable” might be broken into subword parts...

In this post, I explain Fine Tuning Large Language Models: Fine Tuning, Transfer Learning, Pretraining vs Fine-Tuning, Dataset Curation, Classification, Generation, Entity Matching, Sequence Instructioning), Annotation, Labeling Strategies & Synthetic Data for Domain Adaptation, Fine-Tuning Workflows, Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning, Instruction Tuning & Sequential Instruction Fine-Tuning, RLHF, Reward Modeling, and Safety Tuning, Fine-Tuning for Specialized Use Cases: Domain Adaptation & Entity Matching, Adaptive Machine Translation, Model Architectures & Scaling Considerations for Fine-Tuning, Hyperparameters, Optimizers & Practical Recipes (LR, Schedules, Batch Size), Mixed Precision, Memory Optimization, and Distributed Training. If you want my full Fine Tuning LLMs document also including the following topics, you can use the Contact Form (in the right pane) or message me in LinkedIn: Tooling & Frameworks, Offline Metrics, Human Evaluation, and Task-Speci...

Summary : Context Engineering is the architecture that lets AI remember, personalize, and act reliably across sessions. Beyond crafting clever prompts, it assembles the right data, tools, and memory hygiene so AI systems behave like thoughtful personal assistants,  and not forgetful librarians. Beyond RAG: Why Most AI Forgets the Moment You Close the Chat We’ve all had the same experience: a helpful conversation with an AI assistant, then a fresh chat that treats us like a total stranger. Every interaction feels like the first. That friction isn’t just annoying, but it also exposes a core architectural limitation of many AI systems. By default, Large Language Models (LLMs) operate as essentially stateless systems. They reason inside a temporary "context window" that vanishes when the session ends. If you want an AI that remembers, learns, and personalizes over time, you must design for state. That’s what Context Engineering does: it builds the framework that transforms...

In this post, I explain Introduction to Generative AI with Large Language Models, Key Concepts & Definitions, Underlying Models: Transformers & Beyond, Modeling andTraining Foundations, Sampling & Decoding for Generation Quality, Prompting Strategies for Generative AI (zero-shot, few-shot, chain-of-thought prompting, role prompting, and advanced prompt tactics), Scaling & Emergent Capabilities in Generation, Mitigating Hallucination & Ensuring Output Reliability -RAG and grounding, and Advanced Generation: Multimodality & Specialized Content. If you want my full Gen AI with LLMs document also including the following topics, you can use the Contact Form (in the right pane) or message me in LinkedIn:  Popular Generative LLMs & Frameworks (GPT-series, Claude, PaLM, Gemini, LLaMA), Efficiency & Deployment Optimization distillation, quantization, parameter-efficient tuning etc.), Ethics, Privacy & Governance, Generative AI Project Workflow (end-to-e...