Autonomous Agents

Track Overview

Professional engineers and recent coding bootcamp graduates eager to build their own autonomous, tool-using agents by writing code. This track assumes you have mastered the basics of the use of large language models, and you have followed a tutorial or two on youtube, and are ready to build a non-trivial artificial agent.

Agent Design and Architecture for Software Engineers

Classes in This Track

Prompt Engineering

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Prompt Engineering

💻💪 Capable or 💵 subscription🔵Solo coding
- Develop complex prompts and rubrics for AI artifacts - Benchmark testing for prompts and templates - Techniques for 'jailbreaking' large language models - Automating and hosting conversations with AI - Using no-code tools for AI automation and scheduling - Coding alongside large language models - Running open source large language models - Aligning AI outputs to human values - Creating metalanguages for symbolic reasoning and narrative design
Production Agent Engineering

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Production Agent Engineering

🖥️A few installs🟣Pro engineering
- Write effective system prompts for regularized outputs or tool use - Design and implement agents capable of using, creating, and managing tools - Develop agents with autonomous action capabilities, including scheduling and event-triggered responses - Utilize open-source tool hubs designed for Large Language Models - Manage and economically host large vector stores - Construct self-improving agents that can evolve their prompts - Create and manage swarms of agents collaborating on complex goals - Design meta-swarms and information hierarchies for advanced agent collaboration and secrecy - Evaluate and create benchmarks for LLM performance analysis
AI Alignment

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AI Alignment

🖥️A few installs🔵Solo coding
- Develop a benchmark to track and improve AI model and prompt performance over time. - Use moderation models to evaluate and score harmful AI outputs. - Train and prompt engineer AI models towards or away from specific values. - Create a values-evaluation model through self-consistency. - Understand and discuss tokens, values, ethics, reward misspecification, and scalable oversight. - Apply techniques to reduce AI hallucination, ensure AI confidentiality, and detect sleeper agents.