Building AI Applications
Building with AI tools is one thing. Building applications that use AI is another. This section covers the unique challenges, patterns, and pitfalls of AI-powered software.
This section is a work in progress. Content is being actively developed.
Topics to Be Covered
- Choosing an AI provider and model
- API integration patterns
- Prompt engineering fundamentals
- Structured output and response parsing
- Streaming responses
- Token management and cost control
- Rate limiting and retry strategies
- Agent and tool-use architectures
- RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
- Evaluation and testing AI outputs
- User experience patterns for AI features
- Ethical considerations and responsible AI