AI System Design Primer
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The AI System Design Primer is a first release, dated November 2026, from author daneb, modelled on Donne Martin's System Design Primer but adapted for LLM-based systems. It covers trade-offs, components and patterns across providers, with each section marked by maturity (stable, stable concept with volatile specifics, or frontier).