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Building AI Agents

Eve Porcello

When: Friday, June 5 (9am - 4pm)

Instructor: Eve Porcello

Location: Thinkspace Seattle (1700 Westlake Ave N Seattle WA 98109)

What to bring: Laptop

Explore everything from basic tool calling to sophisticated multi-step agents that can reason and act autonomously.

Morning - Agent Foundations

Learn how to build AI agents through hands-on exercises with tool calling and agent loops.

  • Tool Calling Fundamentals
    • Understanding function calling
    • Designing effective tool schemas
    • Handling tool results and errors
    • Hands-on: Building an agent with tools
  • Agent Architecture
    • The agent loop pattern
    • Planning and decision making
    • Managing conversation context
    • Hands-on: Creating a custom assistant agent

Afternoon - Advanced Agent Development

Take your agent skills further by building autonomous systems that can handle complex, multi-step workflows.

  • Multi-Step Agents
    • Orchestrating complex tasks
    • Chain-of-thought reasoning
    • Handling uncertainty and retries
    • Hands-on: Building a code generation agent
  • Agent Patterns in Production
    • Human-in-the-loop workflows
    • Observability and debugging agents
    • Ralph Wiggum loops
    • Safety guardrails and constraints
    • Hands-on: Building a full-featured task automation agent

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