From Recipe to Chef: Become an LLM Engineer 100+ Projects

Course Overview

• Course Title: From Recipe to Chef: Become an LLM Engineer 100+ Projects
• Instructor: Vivian Aranha
• Target Audience:
  • Students
  • Educators
  • Creators
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Professionals from non-technical backgrounds
• Prerequisites:
  • No programming experience required
  • Curiosity about AI and how language models work
  • Basic computer skills
  • A laptop or desktop with internet access
  • Optional: A free OpenAI API key
  • Optional: Interest in building chatbots, writing prompts, or exploring AI careers

Curriculum Highlights

• Key Topics Covered:
  • Understanding LLMs and their components
  • Training data, tokenization, and data quality
  • Training LLMs with batches, epochs, and loss functions
  • Writing better prompts
  • Customizing models with fine-tuning
  • Evaluating model performance
  • Deploying LLMs using APIs and hosting platforms
  • Building full LLM-powered applications
  • Monitoring and improving AI models
• Key Skills Learned:
  • Communicating with LLMs using natural language
  • Designing effective prompts
  • Fine-tuning existing models
  • Evaluating model performance
  • Deploying LLM-powered applications
  • Monitoring and improving AI systems

Course Format

• Duration: 5 hours on-demand video, 101 articles
• Format: Self-paced online course
• Resources:
  • Access on mobile and TV
  • Certificate of completion
  • Free and beginner-friendly tools like Gradio, Google Colab, LangChain templates