Two Recent Reads That Made LLMs Click

I’m reading Hands-On Large Language Models by Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst to continue developing this skill. I took graduate-level courses in machine learning and deep learning, but I want to keep building practical fluency as the field evolves.

I’m pairing it with Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) by Sebastian Raschka. Rebuilding tokenization, attention, pretraining, and fine-tuning in code is how I’m turning theory into durable, current skill.