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7/24/2026

The original title is "AI Engineering Demystified for Backend Developers — Episode 1"
Original: AI-Engg Episode 1 - script
Short summary
A video script for the first episode of an 'AI Engineering Demystified' series aimed at backend developers. It explains the difference between merely using AI tools like Claude or ChatGPT and actually engineering systems around LLMs, framing LLMs as probabilistic components that require new reliability strategies. The series promises to cover prompt engineering, RAG, safe action triggering, and multi-call chaining without requiring ML expertise.
- •AI engineering is building reliable systems around an unreliable-by-nature LLM component, not building the models themselves
- •LLMs differ from traditional code: same input can yield different outputs, and failures are behavioral not logical
- •Series will cover prompt engineering, RAG, safe action triggering, and multi-call chaining for backend engineers
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