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title: "Applied LLMs: What We've Learned From A Year of Building with LLMs"
creator: "Yan, Bischof, Frye, Husain, Liu, Shankar"
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url: "https://applied-llms.org/"
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[Foundations](/foundations/index.md)

# Applied LLMs: What We've Learned From A Year of Building with LLMs

by [Yan, Bischof, Frye, Husain, Liu, Shankar](https://applied-llms.org/)

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Cross-functional lessons from building language-model applications.

Six practitioners organize their experience into tactical, operational and strategic decisions. The collection connects prompting and retrieval with evaluation, product design and the question of when training is actually necessary.

Level: [Intermediate](/levels/index.md#intermediate)
Models: any
Category: [Foundations](/foundations/index.md)
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Source date: date not stated
Added: 2026-10-18
Last verified: 2026-10-18
Status: ok
Prerequisites: Assumes basic LLM familiarity or the ability to read examples and configure a workflow.
Subcategory: [practitioner overviews](/foundations/practitioner-overviews/index.md)
Region: West
Original language: en
Access: free
Resource reuse: closed: No general open-reuse grant established from the inspected page. Closed is the conservative index bucket, not a legal finding; the resource is publicly readable. [Facet definitions](/about/index.md#facets)

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