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Chapters

The LLM Patchbook
Chapter 0: What you will learn
Chapter 1: It sounds more complicated than it actually is
Chapter 2: An agent is a for loop
Chapter 3: How to send a chat request to an LLM
Chapter 4: LLMs are stateless
Chapter 5: System Prompts
Chapter 6: Context Windows
Chapter 7: What can a single call do?
Chapter 8: Gotchas, Part 1
Chapter 9.1: Building a Chatbot, Part 1
Chapter 9.2: Building a Chatbot, Part 2
Chapter 9.3: Building a Chatbot, Part 3
Chapter 10: RAG
Chapter 11: Tool Calling
Chapter 12: Structured Data
Chapter 13: Gotchas, Part 2
Chapter 14: Building Your Own Agent
Chapter 15: Gotchas, Part 3
Appendix: Advanced Topics
Appendix: Prompting Patterns

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Chapter 13: Gotchas, Part 2

This chapter is in development.

The following are gotchas:

Stochastic drift in multi-turn conversations
Prompt injection
Context window overflow

Chapters

The LLM Patchbook
Chapter 0: What you will learn
Chapter 1: It sounds more complicated than it actually is
Chapter 2: An agent is a for loop
Chapter 3: How to send a chat request to an LLM
Chapter 4: LLMs are stateless
Chapter 5: System Prompts
Chapter 6: Context Windows
Chapter 7: What can a single call do?
Chapter 8: Gotchas, Part 1
Chapter 9.1: Building a Chatbot, Part 1
Chapter 9.2: Building a Chatbot, Part 2
Chapter 9.3: Building a Chatbot, Part 3
Chapter 10: RAG
Chapter 11: Tool Calling
Chapter 12: Structured Data
Chapter 13: Gotchas, Part 2
Chapter 14: Building Your Own Agent
Chapter 15: Gotchas, Part 3
Appendix: Advanced Topics
Appendix: Prompting Patterns

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