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Course Overview:

Duration: 1 Hour

Hi, I'm Dex. I've been hacking on AI agents for a while. I've tried every agent framework out there, from the plug-and-play crew/langchains to the ""minimalist"" smolagents of the world to the ""production grade"" langraph, griptape, etc.

I've talked to a lot of really strong founders who are all building really impressive things with AI. Most of them are rolling the stack themselves. I don't see a lot of frameworks in production customer-facing agents.

I've been surprised to find that most of the products out there billing themselves as ""AI Agents"" are not all that agentic. A lot of them are mostly deterministic code, with LLM steps sprinkled in at just the right points to make the experience truly magical.

Agents, at least the good ones, don't follow the ""here's your prompt, here's a bag of tools, loop until you hit the goal"" pattern. Rather, they are comprised of mostly just software.

So, I set out to answer:

What are the principles we can use to build LLM-powered software that is actually good enough to put in the hands of production customers?

Instructor:

Dexter Horthy

Founder at HumanLayer

Dexter has been hacking on AI agents for a while. He has tried every agent framework out there, from the plug-and-play crew/langchains to the "minimalist" smolagents of the world to the "production grade" langraph, griptape, etc. He has talked to a lot of really strong founders who are all building really impressive things with AI. Most of them are rolling the stack themselves. He doesn't see a lot of frameworks in production customer-facing agents. He has been surprised to find that most of the products out there billing themselves as "AI Agents" are not all that agentic. A lot of them are mostly deterministic code, with LLM steps sprinkled in at just the right points to make the experience truly magical. Agents, at least the good ones, don't follow the "here's your prompt, here's a bag of tools, loop until you hit the goal" pattern. Rather, they are comprised of mostly just software.

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