Illustrating Generative AI is an example-driven introduction to building software with free and fully local AI models and tools. It works through the fundamentals of modern AI-assisted engineering, one demo at a time, showing the instructive failures beside the successes. Along the way, the reader gradually builds the discretion, judgment, and critical thinking that working well with these tools demands. The book assumes no mathematics background and keeps every code example simple and close to plain English.

Chiké Abuah is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Walla Walla University, Washington, USA, where he teaches various Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence courses. His work spans system verification, machine learning, and privacy-preserving technology.