Have you ever bought a book on impulse that turned out to be genuinely worth your time?
At FWdays AI this year I bought one book. It's called “Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering, and Agents”. I finished it a while ago, but only now got around to sharing my impressions.
Why did it catch my attention in the first place? Because it's a Ukrainian work. The author is Oleksandr Krakovetskyi, PhD in technical sciences. His talk at the conference really landed with me. Plus, it's a physical book — and a signed one at that. Hard to walk past something like this 🙂
Part one
The fundamentals: what language models, neural networks, tokens, and embeddings are; which models exist and who the key players are. An easy read that paints a coherent big picture.
Part two
Prompts and agents. More hands-on: you can experiment along and get a better feel for how ChatGPT works — and why it's not as simple as it looks at first glance.
I'm glad to have this book in my small library. Out of the four I own, it's definitely not the odd one out.
Which books by Ukrainian authors would you recommend?
Want to recommend a book or talk LLMs?
Drop me a line if you have your own favorites or work with LLMs in production — always curious to compare approaches.