Building AI Applications: The Reader

This is Chapter 1 of our 300-page course reader: yours free.

The full reader spans 9 chapters covering the whole AI software development lifecycle, including evaluation, testing, RAG, agents, multimodal systems, and fine-tuning. It's the companion to our live course, taught by Hugo Bowne-Anderson and Stefan Krawczyk, with guest perspectives from practitioners at Google DeepMind, Pydantic, Chroma, and more.

In this chapter, you'll learn why most AI projects stall after the demo: and the evaluation-driven development framework that gets them to prod.