My go-to AI reading list 📚 These 5 books will take you from zero to actually understanding how modern AI works — not just using it. 1. Build a Large Language Model From Scratch — Sebastian Raschka 2. Hands-On Large Language Models — Jay Alammar & Maarten Grootendorst 3. AI Engineering — Chip Huyen 4. Designing Machine Learning Systems — Chip Huyen 5. Deep Learning — Goodfellow, Bengio & Courville Start with Raschka if you want to understand the internals. Start with Chip Huyen if you want to build things. Read Goodfellow when you’re ready to go deep. Online resources: Deep Learning is free online. Build an LLM From Scratch has an official free ebook request from Manning. The rest have official O’Reilly pages + code/resources #MachineLearning #AI #DeepLearning #LLM #BookRecommendations