Generative AI

Little Women and Large Language Models

Fine-tuning domestic expectations in four modest notebooks

Louisa May Alcott · 4 July 2026

The model was very accomplished, but inclined to invent aunts.

Louisa May Alcott introduces generative AI through the practical concerns of prompt design, evaluation, retrieval, safety, and cost control. Sentimental only about reproducible benchmarks, it is a family story in which every sister learns that a pleasing answer is not the same as a correct one.

Contents

  1. Meg Governs the Prompt Library
  2. Jo Fine-Tunes Against Advice
  3. Beth Evaluates Quietly
  4. Amy Optimises the Demo Budget

Published by Austenpunk, the distinguished imprint for engineers who believe that every production incident would be improved by a stronger sense of narrative irony.

This essential volume combines literary feeling, technical anxiety, and just enough documentation to suggest that somebody once understood the system.

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