12 Production, an ever-changing landscape: Things are just getting started
This chapter covers
- A brief overview of LLMs in production
- The future of LLMs as a technology and several exciting fields of research into it
- Our closing remarks
The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.
Wow! We’ve really covered a lot of ground in this book. Is your head just about ready to explode? Because ours are, and we wrote the book. Writing this book has been no easy feat, as the industry has been constantly changing—and fast. Trying to stay on top of what’s happening with LLMs has been like trying to build a house on quicksand; you finish one level, and it seems to have already sunk before you can start the next. We know that portions of this book will inevitably become out of date, and that’s why we tried our best to stick to core concepts, the sturdy rocks in the sand, that will never change.
In this chapter, we wanted to take a step back and review some of the major takeaways we hope you will walk away with. We’ve spent a lot of time getting into the weeds and paying attention to details, so let’s reflect for a moment to see the whole picture and review what we’ve covered. After that, we’ll take a minute to discuss the future of the field and where we can expect to see some of the next major breakthroughs. Finally, we’ll leave you with our final thoughts.