Artificial Intelligence
AI Agents Explained
Software that takes action, not just chat

Written and taught by Yuki Tanaka
Applied AI Engineer

Understand and build a simple agent that uses tools, remembers context and completes multi-step jobs.
What this course covers
- What separates an agent from a chatbot
- Tools, memory and planning loops
- Building a research agent live
- Guardrails, approvals and cost control
- Where agents fail and what to do about it
About the author

Yuki Tanaka
Applied AI Engineer
Yuki builds AI tools for a living and teaches the exact patterns that hold up outside of a demo.
- Expertise
- AI agentsGenerative modelsVoice AIPrompt engineering
- Experience
- 10 years in applied AI, previously building speech and vision products.
Who it is for
Technical hobbyists and product people.
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