Official code repo for "Hands-On Large Language Models" hits 28.9k stars
ZabihullahAtal · x · 2026-09-05
The resource list points to the official code repo for O'Reilly's Hands-On Large Language Models by Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst — dubbed "The Illustrated LLM Book" with nearly 300 custom figures covering practical LLM tools and concepts. All 12 chapters' example code is organized in the repo with environment files for easy setup; it has reached roughly 28.9k stars and 6.6k forks on GitHub. The thread also mentions Karpathy's Neural Networks: Zero to Hero for building nets from scratch.
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