This course is designed for software engineers and ML practitioners aiming to advance from building LLM prototypes to deploying robust, production-grade AI systems. In the real world, a reliable application requires more than a clever prompt; it demands a rigorous software engineering foundation to ensure its testability, maintainability, and safety. This course provides that critical toolkit.

Testing and Refining LLM Applications
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Testing and Refining LLM Applications
This course is part of LLM Engineering That Works: Prompting, Tuning, and Retrieval Specialization

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What you'll learn
Apply TDD to microservice endpoints and refactor modules based on code reviews to improve readability and reduce complexity.
Develop behavior and safety tests to ensure LLM outputs comply with policies and block unsafe changes to the model.
Apply data versioning to track artifacts and evaluate ML experiment runs to select production-ready models.
Create scripts using Python's argparse to automate multi-step computational workflows in cloud environments.
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