Introduction to LLM
This page provides an easy-to-understand guide on LLMs (Large Language Models) from basics to applications for AI enthusiasts.
Chapter 11 — Observability, Logging, and Incident Response
Eleventh post of the LLM Primer VII walkthrough. Structured LLM logging with PII redaction, OpenTelemetry GenAI conventions, and the NIST SP 800-61 IR cycle adapted for probabilistic systems.
2026-05-20
Chapter 9 — Model Integrity and Supply Chain Risks
Ninth post of the LLM Primer VII walkthrough. Open-source model dependency risk, Sleeper Agents (Hubinger et al.), safetensors vs pickle, CVE-2024-3568, and the SLSA / Sigstore artifact-signing discipline.
2026-05-18
Chapter 3 — Data Security and Privacy
Third post of the LLM Primer VII walkthrough. Training-data risks, memorization and extraction (Carlini et al., Nasr et al.), and the encryption, isolation, and retention disciplines that keep sensitive prompts contained.
2026-05-12
LLM Primer VII — Series Introduction & Index
Kicking off the chapter-by-chapter walkthrough of Book VII in the LLM Primer series — AI Security. Why in LLM systems code and data are the same string, and the schedule for the seventeen posts that follow, May 10 through May 26. This is the series finale.
2026-05-09
Chapter 8 — Data Anonymization in the RAG Pipeline
Eighth post of the LLM Primer III walkthrough. Pre-generation versus post-generation anonymisation, the three technique families — masking, synthetic replacement, differential privacy — and the utility-privacy tradeoff that determines whether the system remains useful at all.
2026-03-25
LLM Primer III — Series Introduction & Index
Kicking off the chapter-by-chapter walkthrough of Book III in the LLM Primer series — Enhancing Enterprise AI with RAG. Why retrieval-augmented generation looks simple from the outside and is a stack of disciplines underneath, who this book is for, and the schedule for the eleven posts that follow, March 18 through March 28.
2026-03-17