{"repo":"Drobiazkin/ai-agent-architecture","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/Drobiazkin/ai-agent-architecture","clone":"git clone https://github.com/Drobiazkin/ai-agent-architecture.git","description":"Build LLM systems you actually control. A free, open engineering book + course — from tokenization to serving your own models. Mechanisms, trade-offs, and numbers, not prompt tips","language":"HTML","stars":45,"topics":["ai-agents","distributed-systems","llm","machine-learning","mcp","prompt-engineering","rag","self-hosted","transformers","opensource"],"license":"CC-BY-SA-4.0","category":"ai-agents","readme_excerpt":"The Architecture of AI Agents and LLM Systems An engineering book on building LLM systems you actually control — free, open, and written for engineers who ship. by Aleksandr Drobiazkin · English and Russian editions Contact: aleksandr.drobiazkin@gmail.com · LinkedIn Patterns, approaches, and engineering for enterprise automation — 8 parts, 26 chapters, 5 appendices, 258 pages in print, plus a hands-on companion course. No hype, no \"prompt tips,\" no vendor marketing. Mechanisms, trade-offs, and numbers. --- Why this book exists There is a version of the next decade where building anything intelligent means renting it, one API call at a time, from three companies — and where the engineers who build on top of that stack cannot explain what happens between their JSON request and the answer that comes back. That is not a licensing problem. It is a competence problem, and it is the only one you can actually solve. Digital independence is not about refusing to use hosted models. It is about never being unable to leave. An engineer who knows how attention scales, what a KV-cache costs, when a retrieval pattern beats fine-tuning, how to serve an open model on their own hardware, and what an eval suite has to prove before a release ships — that engineer chooses their stack. An engineer who knows only an SDK gets whatever the pricing page decides next quarter. This book was written to move as many people as possible from the second group into the first. That is the whole cause. It is wh","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/Drobiazkin","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/Drobiazkin/ai-agent-architecture/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}