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The AI Builder's Handbook

Using AI efficiently, harnessing open source, and hosting for almost nothing, A to Z. 2026 edition, in three volumes.

  1. Vol. 1 · Parts I–III · Chapters 1–16

    Foundations and Everyday Mastery

    How AI really works, from a plain-language history to transformers, tokens and the 2026 model landscape. Then prompting, context engineering, 150 practical tricks, and AI across coding, knowledge work, media, marketing and operations.

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  2. Vol. 2 · Parts IV–VI · Chapters 17–33

    Building, Open Source, and Cost

    Building with AI: LLM APIs, RAG, vector search, agents and MCP, multi-agent fan-out, evals and fine-tuning. Then the open-source advantage (running and choosing open-weight models, self-hosting SaaS replacements) and the economics of keeping the bill near zero.

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  3. Cover of The AI Builder's Handbook, Volume 3: Hosting, Production, and Reference

    Vol. 3 · Parts VII–VIII · Chapters 34–43 · Appendices

    Hosting, Production, and Reference

    Hosting from A to Z: DNS, TLS, one VPS for many apps, serverless, hyperscaler free tiers and a directory of 100+ providers. Then security, 20 production case studies and a 30/60/90-day roadmap, plus a glossary, a prompt library and cheat sheets.

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