Module 12 Wrap-up: Engineering for 99% Accuracy
Hands-on: Build a self-correcting agent loop that uses Pydantic to validate outputs.
Hands-on: Build a self-correcting agent loop that uses Pydantic to validate outputs.
Hacking the brain. Understanding how users can trick your agent into bypassing its own rules.
Protecting the user. How to handle Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and ensure your agent is GDPR/CCPA compliant.
Zero data leakage. Running high-performance agents on your own hardware using Ollama, MLX, and Llama.cpp.
Economic security. Preventing runaway costs and protecting your API keys from exhaustion.
The Responsible Engineer. Navigating the legal and ethical landscape of autonomous agents.
Hands-on: Secure an agent against jailbreaking and implement a PII redaction layer.
Why LLMs aren't enough. Understanding the limit of probabilistic reasoning in deterministic business systems.
Old school intelligence. Learning how to define states, transitions, and triggers to create unshakeable logic.
The bridge. How to use an LLM to classify user intent and trigger a specific state change in your FSM.
Mathematically impossible to fail. Using libraries like Outlines and Guidance to force the LLM to follow a specific grammar or regex.
The support architect. Designing an automated ticket system that uses an FSM for policy and an LLM for empathy.
Hands-on: Build a state-machine governed agent that handles a login and payment flow.
The Long-Term Memory. Learning how to use Pinecone, Chroma, and PGVector to give your agents a massive knowledge base.
Save time, save money. Using GPTCache to avoid calling the expensive LLM for identical (or similar) queries.
The eyes of the system. Implementing real-time tracking for agent health, token usage, and user sentiment.
Handling the crowd. How to manage thousands of concurrent agents without crashing your database or hit API limits.
Pipelining intelligence. How to automate the testing, benchmarking, and deployment of your agentic code and prompts.
Hands-on: Build a simple RAG agent that retrieves context from a local Vector DB before answering.
Breaking the box. Why traditional chat interfaces fail to communicate the complexity of multi-agent systems.
Beyond text. How to use Vercel AI SDK and specialized tokens to render interactive UI components (dashboards, charts) on the fly.
Watch the agent work. How to capture and stream the 'Thought' and 'Action' phases to the UI in real-time.
Patience is a virtue. How to handle research tasks that take minutes to finish using notifications and async status pages.
See and hear. Designing interfaces that allow agents to process images, diagrams, and voice commands.
Hands-on: Design a dashboard concept for a multi-agent research crew that shows planning and status.
Dissecting the agent. Understanding the four pillars: LLM, Memory, Tools, and the Control Loop.
The snapshot of intelligence. Managing variables, message history, and flags within a running agent.
The two speeds of learning. Understanding conversation buffers vs vector databases.
The mechanics of action. How LLMs trigger external functions using structured JSON.
Self-correcting AI. How agents learn from errors and retry failed attempts during execution.
Hands-on: Build a manual, single-step agent loop from scratch in Python.
Mastering the fundamental agent loop. How to prompt for Thought, Action, and Observation.
Divide and conquer. Using one agent to build the map and another to walk the path.
The CEO of Agents. Coordinating multiple specialist agents to solve multi-disciplinary problems.
Self-improving AI. Using one model to generate and another to find the flaws.
The safety net. When and how to pause an autonomous agent to ask for human approval.
Hands-on: Design a planner-executor flow for a multi-step research task.
The framework of choice. Understanding the high-level Agent abstractions in LangChain.
Equipping your agent. How to define tools using decorators, pydantic, and base classes.
The heartbeat of LangChain agents. Managing the while-loop and handling the ReAct cycle.
Connecting the threads. How to implement chat history and windowed memory in LangChain agents.
Why agents break. Understanding hallucinations, tool loops, and parsing errors in LangChain.
Protecting your wallet. Setting limits on iterations, time, and tokens in LangChain agent executors.
Hands-on: Build a tool-using LangChain agent and observe the reasoning traces in real-time.
The AI feedback trap. Why agents get stuck in repetitive cycles and how to break them.
When models get lazy. Understanding how agents take shortcuts or misuse tools to avoid difficult reasoning.
Ghost tools. How to handle agents that try to execute functions that don't exist in their toolbox.
The Black Box problem. Why traditional debuggers fail and how to use traces to find the glitch.
From magic to structure. Why giving an agent too much freedom is a recipes for disaster.
The successor to the Loop. Understanding the need for cyclic graphs in agent development.