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Just released a new book on using the foundation model APIs, https://crimede-coder.com/blogposts/2026/LLMsForMortals, Large Language Models for Mortals: A Practical Guide for Analysts with Python.

Up to date and has examples for all of the major foundation model providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and AWS Bedrock). Goes through basics of calling the API, structured outputs, RAG, and MCP/Agents. Also has a chapter on the LLM coding tools (Copilot, Claude Code, and Antigravity).