Chip Huyen

Author, Designing Machine Learning Systems | AI Engineer & Systems Educator

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Chip Huyen is a computer scientist, author, and educator whose work on machine learning systems engineering is taught at Stanford and used by engineering teams globally. Her book 'Designing Machine Learning Systems' is an industry standard for production ML, and her technical writing provides actionable blueprints for production LLM engineering.

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Building LLM-Based Systems: Latency, Cost, and Architecture Trade-offs

Comprehensive guide detailing the engineering differences between training, fine-tuning, and prompt-based RAG architectures in enterprise production.

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System design blueprint; implementation performance depends on team infrastructure and latency budgets.

Context: LLM systems engineering, inference caching, and evaluation harnesses.

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