Episode · The Pragmatic Engineer · 2025-02-05
Gergely Orosz & Chip Huyen: books mentioned on The Pragmatic Engineer
AI Engineering with Chip Huyen
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Gergely Orosz discussed AI Engineering by Chip Huyen. Chip Huyen recommended Complex Adaptive Systems by John H. Miller and others, The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, and Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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AI Engineering
AI Engineering by Chip Huyen provides a comprehensive examination of building and navigating systems within the fast-paced field of artificial intelligence.
Discussed“so first of all I really want to congratulate you on this book I've started to read the book so I I've not read the whole thing”
Where to get it
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Complex Adaptive Systems
Complex Adaptive Systems by John H.
Recommended“so so I really like the book like first of all like complex uh adaptive systems uh it's a very interesting book about a system thinking like how to design”
Where to get it
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The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins is a foundational work of popular science that explores evolutionary biology through a gene-centric lens, famously introducing the concept of the meme.
Recommended“um I like the book uh selfish Gene um because uh you understand more like about Free Will and makes you like question a little stuff uh but it's the idea of like you can live on either through like jeans or through ideas”
Where to get it
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Antifragile
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a non-fiction book that explores how certain systems, things, and people actually benefit and grow stronger from disorder, volatility, and stress.
Recommended“um I like the book uh anti fragile uh so so so yeah so so the ideas thing um I think the author is is a very interesting character uh I I read his books I actually really like them”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“chip huan is a computer scientist and writer and author of the book AI engineering this book is currently the most R title on the O'Reilly platform”
“I think I also published like so I think in the book I cited about like over a thousand references um so like uh I should read even more like uh papers”
“with more than just language um and I think it's just like and nowaday just everywhere like almost old models now like M mod so the the title of the book is AI engineering”
“and you know you do cover some of these things in in your book as well like some of the kind of more common steps that I'll need to take”
“maybe a book or doing a course with a friends uh read paper”
“thank you to chip for this conversation about AI engineering to get in touch with chip including to get feedback on her book you can find her contact details on her website Linked In the show notes below I've also found her book AI engineering”