I've done it; I've built a time machine

It will allow you to travel from the now to a place and time where you know all the secrets to building super-effective AI applications powered by documents and knowledge you provide the models with.

We've all experienced the initial wonders of AI models and, soon after that, the disappointment of results when you asked them for some real knowledge.

At the same time, the startup world is spitting out one amazing AI product after another that allows you to do the most amazing things. So apparently, they have some AI wizards who can conjure secret models and systems that are out of reach of mere mortals such as us.

Don't be fooled though, most if not all of the current "incredible" AI systems are built based on very simple principles combined with a few special tricks to make it all work.

Where would one find these building blocks and tricks? In this book, perchance?

Yes!

This book is your ticket to being an AI expert.

I've done all the work for you and discovered how to write effective assistant prompts, use semantic search to find meaning in documents, deal with large documents, and combine all of this into what is called a RAG pipeline.

I am not the first to do this; many companies will sell these as super convenient solutions. But they are trying to keep you ignorant!

Soon, knowing how to build AI systems that use external knowledge will be a basic requirement for developers, just like being able to write or at least reason about SQL.

Back to the time machine

Where is it?

You probably guessed it; it is right in front of you. It is this book!

Get on board and get to the top of the industry in applying AI in Rails applications.

But wait, there is more

If you are like me, you want to know the details and the reasons why to gain a true understanding. This is what you get with the book.

I've also decided to make the source code of the application I built in the book available here. With the source code, you can start playing with the concepts I show straight away. You can try what small or big changes will do from the strong foundation that is the document-powered knowledge base built in the book.

Here it is

Here is Babble, the wonderful knowledge base application that will forever be the project in which you mastered AI.

Team licenses

As an engineering manager, I totally understand that you want to level up your whole team. That is why I've made team licenses available. You can share the book and source code with teams of up to 10 people.

You'd really help me out by going with the team license.