New 354-page LLM practical guide ships with 250+ Python snippets, agent chapters
RexDouglass · x · 2026-10-02
A data scientist released Large Language Models for Mortals: A Practical Guide for Analysts with Python — a hands-on tutorial covering OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and AWS Bedrock APIs.
Highlights:
- 354 pages with 250+ Python code snippets and 80+ screenshots
- Covers API calls, structured outputs, RAG, tool-calling/MCP/agents
- Dedicated chapter on LLM coding tools: GitHub Copilot, Claude Code (via AWS Bedrock), and Google's Antigravity, plus local model examples
- First 60 pages free as PDF; paperback $59.99, epub $49.99
- Motivation: LLMs have upended data science, shifting work from traditional ML to LLM applications
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