The architecture of today's LLM applications - The GitHub Blog

This GitHub Blog article explains the architecture of today’s LLM applications and ways to begin building one.

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This GitHub Blog post, written by Nicole Choi, covers five major steps to building an LLM app and the emerging architecture of today's LLM apps. It also points to problem areas that readers can start exploring. The article is aimed at developers who want to build their first LLM app and need a sense of datasets, embeddings, and parameter weights. It was published October 30, 2023 and updated February 7, 2024.

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Key features

  • Explains five steps to building an LLM app
  • Covers choosing a pre-trained model by licensing, size, and performance
  • Describes in-context learning, RLHF, and fine-tuning
  • Explains offline evaluations and incremental scoring
  • Discusses problem spaces to explore
Best for: Developers who want to build their first LLM app.
Watch out for
  • Written at a high level, so it gives an overview of each step
  • Fine-tuning requires time-intensive labeling

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Oct 21, 2026 · Official source
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