No.. this information is for software engineers applying LLM's in their applications. I'm working on an LLM based system, and I'm just soloing a startup with no academic background and it's certainly no research project. I've been doing it for 3 months 1-2 hours per night and I've already applied half the patterns in this article.

I'll grant you that the way the author presents his ideas seems a bit academic, but I assure you all of this information is just the immediate things you run into as a software engineer trying to integrate LLM's into your systems. No one is jumping to finetuning before they've even tried GPT4 on their problem.