The Generative AI Career Masterplan
by Dr. Ali Arsanjani, Sadid Hasan, Maxime Labonne, Andreas Horn, Leonid Kuligin
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Essential Tools and Platforms
“It’s easy to convince yourself that your system works well on simple examples and vibe-checks. Make sure that your evaluation set reflects the actual diversity and complexity of real-world queries, including edge cases and failure modes.”
– Maxime Labonne
In this chapter, we will explore the practical tools and frameworks essential for building modern AI applications. We’ll detail the two main pathways: developing with cloud models from providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, and building with local, open-weight models. We will cover key agentic frameworks such as LangGraph and LlamaIndex, as well as the complete open-source ecosystem, including the Hugging Face Hub, various inference engines, fine-tuning ...
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