Artificial Intelligence in Production: A Practitioner's Journey — From Transformers and Large Language Models to Autonomous Agents: 3 - Softcover

Dharmalingam, Mr. Krishna

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798257184468

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

The third volume of A Practitioner's Journey. Twenty-one chapters cover the modern AI stack end to end — large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, RLHF alignment, autonomous agents, and the LLM-specific infrastructure that surrounds them.

This is not another "build a ChatGPT clone" book. It is a working engineer's guide to the techniques and engineering decisions behind production AI systems. You will start with NLP foundations and tokenization, move through transformer architectures and LLMs, build production-grade RAG pipelines with vector stores and reranking, train reward models and align LLMs with RLHF and DPO, and finish with autonomous agents, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), multi-agent coordination, and multi-modal models.

You will learn to:

• Build and deploy production RAG with vector stores, reranking, and citation grounding
• Fine-tune and align LLMs with RLHF, DPO, and Constitutional AI
• Design autonomous agent loops with safe tool use and approval gates
• Coordinate multiple agents through the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
• Right-size LLM infrastructure across Bedrock, Vertex, Groq, and on-prem
• Distill large models into deployable, edge-ready footprints

Companion volumes: Books 1 and 2 of A Practitioner's Journey cover classical ML, deep learning, and the production engineering stack — recommended as prerequisites if you are new to the field, optional if you already work in ML/AI.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798257184468
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 551