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The Developer's Guide to AI
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The Developer's Guide to AI

by Jacob Orshalick, Jerry M. Reghunadh, Danny Thompson
June 2026
Intermediate
320 pages
7h 45m
English
No Starch Press
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2BUILDING YOUR FIRST LLM-POWERED APPLICATION

As with anything new, we have to start with the basics. This chapter will serve as your “Hello, World!” to calling an LLM API from code and getting a response.

By the end of this chapter, you will have the basic knowledge and code necessary to do the following:

  • Capture input from a user and build a prompt
  • Send that prompt to an LLM through an API
  • Stream the LLM response back to the user

All the concepts and code will be explained along the way. If you want to download the example, you can clone the following project from GitHub: https://github.com/jorshali/developers-guide-to-ai.

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