AI Engineering with Chip Huyen
Chip Huyen is an AI engineering expert who has been in this field even before it was called AI engineering. She is the author of the O’Reilly book AI Engineering . The chapter summaries of the book are available on Github . Chip has worked as a researcher at Netflix, was a core developer at NVIDIA (building NeMo, NVIDIA’s GenAI framework), and co-founded Claypot AI. She also taught Machine Learning at Stanford University. Q & A from her interview on The Pragmatic Engineer YouTube channel paraphrased by NotebookLM - Q: How would you define AI Engineer or AI Engineering? A: It's a shift from more machine learning to more engineering and more product . Previously, building machine learning applications required building your own models with your own data and expertise. Now, you can use direct API calls. Q: What are typical steps to build an AI application, from choosing a model through using RAG all the way to fine-tuning? A: Start by understanding what makes a 'good' vs...