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LLM Systems Engineering: Training and Building Large Language Models by Rob McKinsey is a technical guide to the engineering lifecycle behind large language models. Rather than treating LLMs mainly as chat products or API services, the book frames them as trainable systems shaped by tokenization, architecture, data, compute, optimization, evaluation, and maintenance. Its stated scope moves from foundational concepts, such as tokens, embeddings, transformers, pretraining objectives, and inference loops, toward applied workflows for fine-tuning, continued pretraining, and training models from scratch. The book is organized around eight major chapters and a modular structure, using Python and modern tools such as Unsloth for practical demonstrations. Its purpose is not simply to explain what LLMs can do, but to show how engineers plan, adapt, and operate them in real environments. The result is a systems-oriented treatment aimed at readers who want more depth than prompt engineering or product-level AI usage.