Get the Hands-On LLMs 1-Page Map

Jay Alammar & Maarten Grootendorst's 'Hands-On Large Language Models' (O'Reilly, 2024) is the book that teaches LLMs with nearly 300 hand-drawn pictures — by the author of The Illustrated Transformer and the creator of BERTopic. This free one-page map distills the whole thing. You get the core mental model (an LLM is two families: representation/BERT that understands & embeds text, and generative/GPT that produces it), all 12 chapters in plain English across 3 parts — Understand (tokens, embeddings, attention, the Transformer), Use (classification, clustering/topic modeling, prompt engineering, agents & tools, semantic search & RAG, multimodal), and Train (creating embedding models, fine-tuning representation & generation models) — plus the prompt -> RAG -> fine-tune ladder (climb only as high as you must), a reading-order map by role, an honest verdict on who should read it and who should skip it, and where to get it including the free GitHub Colab notebooks for every chapter. An independent, credited summary to read alongside the book.

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