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Course07 · AI Engineering: Agents and Applications
Agents, MCP, AI coding tools, evaluation, and full-stack AI applications — engineering AI systems that hold up in production.
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Days 288-294 · AI Agents 0/7 complete
- Day 288 What an AI Agent Is planned
- Day 289 The Agent Loop: Reason, Act, Observe planned
- Day 290 Designing Tools for Agents planned
- Day 291 An Agent from Scratch planned
- Day 292 Agent Frameworks and When to Use Them planned
- Day 293 Multi-Agent Systems planned
- Day 294 Building a Research Agent planned
Project: Research Agent — Build an agent that researches a question with search and note-taking tools and produces a cited brief.
Days 295-301 · The Model Context Protocol 0/7 complete
- Day 295 What MCP Is and Why It Exists planned
- Day 296 Using MCP Servers planned
- Day 297 Building an MCP Server planned
- Day 298 MCP Resources and Prompts planned
- Day 299 Building an MCP Client planned
- Day 300 MCP Security planned
- Day 301 Your Personal MCP Server planned
Project: Personal MCP Server — Build and test an MCP server exposing your own data or tools, and use it from a real client.
Days 302-308 · AI Coding Agents 0/7 complete
- Day 302 The AI Coding Landscape planned
- Day 303 Working with a Coding Agent planned
- Day 304 Effective Agentic Coding Workflows planned
- Day 305 Configuring Agents: Memory, Skills, and Rules planned
- Day 306 Reviewing and Trusting AI-Written Code planned
- Day 307 Coding Agents in CI and Automation planned
- Day 308 Shipping a Feature with an Agent planned
Project: Agent-Built Feature — Ship a reviewed, tested feature to one of your own projects using an AI coding agent, documenting the workflow.
Days 309-315 · Evaluation and Reliability 0/7 complete
- Day 309 Why Evals Are the Real Moat planned
- Day 310 Building Evaluation Datasets planned
- Day 311 LLM-as-Judge planned
- Day 312 Regression Testing for Prompts and Models planned
- Day 313 Guardrails and Content Moderation planned
- Day 314 Observability and Tracing for AI planned
- Day 315 An Evaluation Harness planned
Project: Evaluation Harness — Build an eval harness with a labeled dataset, an LLM judge, and regression gates for one of your AI features.
Days 316-322 · Full-Stack AI Applications 0/7 complete
- Day 316 Architecture of an AI Product planned
- Day 317 Backend Patterns for LLM Apps planned
- Day 318 Chat UX and Streaming Frontends planned
- Day 319 Auth, Quotas, and Billing planned
- Day 320 Latency and Caching planned
- Day 321 Vendor Abstraction and Fallbacks planned
- Day 322 A Full-Stack AI Application planned
Project: Full-Stack AI App — Build a deployed chat application with streaming, auth, usage quotas, and a vendor-abstraction layer.
Days 323-329 · Production Retrieval and Pipelines 0/7 complete
- Day 323 Data Ingestion Pipelines planned
- Day 324 Document Processing at Scale planned
- Day 325 Keeping Indexes Fresh planned
- Day 326 Scaling Retrieval planned
- Day 327 Cost Engineering for AI Systems planned
- Day 328 Privacy in AI Systems planned
- Day 329 Section Project: A Production Assistant planned
Project: Section Project: Production Assistant — Assemble a production-grade assistant: ingestion pipeline, fresh index, evals, cost budget, and privacy review.