2-1-12. The System Architect — Building Your Own LLM System
LLM Primer17 Helmi

2-1-12. The System Architect — Building Your Own LLM System

In this episode, we bring every previous concept together to answer the ultimate practical question: How do you actually build a complete LLM system from scratch? We move beyond the model itself to construct the full production environment—from legal compliance to user interface—required to turn a neural network into a working product.

Join us as we:

• Secure the Foundation: We tackle Datasets and Licensing, explaining why data governance, provenance tracking, and legal compliance are the non-negotiable starting points of any system.

• Engineer the Pipeline: We break down the Training Pipeline, detailing the operational discipline required to automate preprocessing, manage distributed training, and ensure reproducibility.

• Define Success: We construct Evaluation Frameworks, moving beyond simple accuracy metrics to build systematic testing for robustness, safety, and bias mitigation.

• Orchestrate the Stack: We explore the Integrated Application Stack, visualizing how inference APIs, vector databases, caching layers, and security modules must coordinate to serve users reliably.

• Learn from Reality: We review Case Studies & Best Practices, synthesizing lessons from real-world deployments to highlight why modular design and observability are critical for long-term maintenance.

This episode serves as the comprehensive blueprint for engineers ready to integrate data, algorithms, and infrastructure into a unified, scalable system.

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2-7-7. Hallucinations and Reliability: Managing Confident Errors

2-7-7. Hallucinations and Reliability: Managing Confident Errors

This episode covers Chapter 7, examining why Large Language Models confidently generate false information. We discuss the probabilistic nature of "hallucinations," the dangerous gap between fluency an...

19 Helmi 16min

2-7-6. Retrieval-Augmented Generation Risks: Securing the Knowledge Pipeline

2-7-6. Retrieval-Augmented Generation Risks: Securing the Knowledge Pipeline

This episode covers Chapter 6, focusing on the security implications of connecting models to external data (RAG). We discuss how this introduces new trust boundaries, the dangers of malicious document...

19 Helmi 34min

2-7-5. Input Validation and Output Filtering: The Defense Pipeline

2-7-5. Input Validation and Output Filtering: The Defense Pipeline

This episode covers Chapter 5, detailing how to build disciplined pipelines around an AI model. We discuss strategies for sanitizing user inputs to catch attacks early, the importance of structured pr...

18 Helmi 29min

2-7-4. Prompt Injection and Jailbreaks: Defending the Interpreter

2-7-4. Prompt Injection and Jailbreaks: Defending the Interpreter

This episode explores Chapter 4, detailing how attackers manipulate model behavior through crafted inputs like instruction overrides. We discuss why prompt injection is an inherent property of instruc...

18 Helmi 37min

2-7-3. Data Security and Privacy: The AI Lifecycle

2-7-3. Data Security and Privacy: The AI Lifecycle

This episode breaks down Chapter 3, tracking data risks from training to deployment. We discuss how models can memorize sensitive training data, the subtle dangers of leakage through generated outputs...

18 Helmi 25min

2-7-2. Threat Modeling for LLM Systems: A Step-by-Step Guide

2-7-2. Threat Modeling for LLM Systems: A Step-by-Step Guide

This episode covers the systematic approach of Chapter 2, moving beyond vague security worries to concrete risk analysis. We discuss how to identify unique AI assets—like prompts, logs, and retrieval ...

18 Helmi 29min

2-7-1. The Probabilistic Shift: Why AI Security is Different

2-7-1. The Probabilistic Shift: Why AI Security is Different

This episode dives into Chapter 1, exploring why traditional security measures fail when applied to Large Language Models. We discuss the fundamental shift from deterministic code to probabilistic beh...

18 Helmi 36min