Building AI Agents That Ship
Tools, memory, planning and guardrails
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Taught by Andrej Karpathy
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Anatomy of an agent loop
Video by Andrej Karpathy · Watch on YouTube
AI lesson summary
Plan, act, observe, repeat: the core loop and where agents typically break.
Key takeaways
- Tools turn a chat model into an actor
- State must be explicit and inspectable
- Stop conditions prevent runaway cost
Practical exercise
Diagram an agent that books a meeting, including failure paths.
About this course
Design agent loops that actually finish tasks: tool calling, state, retries, evaluation and cost control.
agents
tools
automation
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