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Google just dropped a 1-hour course on agentic engineering from scratch: 00:00 – How to build your first AI agent 08:24 – Build agent memory (short, persistent, long) 28:34 – Agentic loops, long-running AI agents 40:04 – How to build MCP (MCP vs API) 1:00:22 – Multi-agentic systems This 1-hour watch will replace 10 paid agentic courses on the internet. Bookmark this. Watch this weekend.
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MCP vs RAG vs AI Agent (explained in 2 mins or less):
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Anthropic pays $650,000 a year for people who can go from pre-training to a deployed model. Most people will save the thread and never open the source. You will either walk this now or pay someone to explain it later. Fundamentals => architecture => pre-training => fine-tuning => evaluation => running models => RAG => deployment => inference => security. 01 LLM Fundamentals. Math, Python, neural networks. github.com/mlabonne/llm-cour… 02 The LLM Architecture. Tokenization, attention, sampling. github.com/mlabonne/llm-cour… 03 Pre-training. Data, training, scaling. github.com/mlabonne/llm-cour… 04 Supervised fine-tuning. LoRA, QLoRA, DPO. github.com/mlabonne/llm-cour… 05 Evaluation. How you know the model works. github.com/mlabonne/llm-cour… 06 Running LLMs. Serving and inference. github.com/mlabonne/llm-cour… 07 RAG. Vector databases and retrieval. github.com/mlabonne/llm-cour… 08 Deployment. Shipping the application. github.com/mlabonne/llm-cour… 09 Inference optimization. Speed and cost. github.com/mlabonne/llm-cour… 10 Securing LLMs. Prompt injection, backdoors, red teaming. github.com/mlabonne/llm-cour… The repo and the notebooks are free. save this ⭣
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𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗔𝗜 = 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗚𝗣𝗧. Not even close. ChatGPT is what you see. The real AI revolution is the massive ecosystem being built underneath it. This AI Stack Map captures 100+ tools powering modern AI applications. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀: LLMs → OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Mistral Agentic AI → LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, CAMEL, Agno RAG → LangChain, LlamaIndex, Haystack, GraphRAG Embeddings → OpenAI, Voyage, Cohere, BGE MCP → Connecting models with tools, data and systems AI Security → Guardrails, Presidio, Lakera, Prompt Security Observability & Evals → LangSmith, Langfuse, Phoenix, Ragas Memory → Redis, Mem0, Zep, Neo4j, Chroma Agent Frameworks → OpenAI SDK, Semantic Kernel, Google ADK, Bedrock Automation → n8n, Zapier, Make, Airflow, Prefect Vector Databases → Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, Milvus, pgvector But here’s the part that matters more than the logos. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁. It’s a dependency graph. Your RAG is only as good as your retrieval + embeddings. Your agent is only as reliable as its tools + evaluations + guardrails. Your memory is useless if you can’t observe when context becomes stale or wrong. Your MCP layer becomes dangerous if permissions and governance are an afterthought. And a “best-in-class” stack can still become a terrible production system. Why? Because AI systems rarely fail only inside one component. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗳𝗳𝘀. Model → Retrieval Retrieval → Context Context → Agent Agent → Tool Tool → Memory Memory → Evaluation That’s where latency compounds, context gets lost, permissions leak, hallucinations propagate and reliability starts falling apart. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗼𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀. It’s designing how they work together. A stack map tells you 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 exists. Production engineering decides 𝗛𝗢𝗪 it all survives contact with reality. Which tool in your AI stack has become indispensable? Save this map for your next AI build. Repost it for someone designing an AI architecture. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GenAI
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𝗠𝗖𝗣 𝘃𝘀 𝗔𝗣𝗜 𝘃𝘀 𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀. An 𝗔𝗣𝗜 defines how software systems communicate through specific endpoints, requests, and responses. It gives applications a structured way to access data or trigger functionality in another system. 𝗠𝗖𝗣 (Model Context Protocol) standardizes how AI applications discover and interact with external tools, data, and resources. Instead of building custom integrations for every AI client, MCP servers expose capabilities through a common protocol that agents can use. 𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀 package reusable instructions, workflows, and resources that guide agents through specific tasks. Rather than providing new connections to external systems, they give agents task-specific procedures and know-how they can load when needed. Together, they help agents connect to systems and use those capabilities to complete tasks. But building all these integrations and workflows from scratch takes time. Precisely AI Studio helps builders build faster with 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆-𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀, 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗠𝗖𝗣. Builders can explore and test them using sample data, then bring agents and skills into their existing AI stack. Explore Precisely AI Studio → lucode.co/precisely-ai-studi… What else would you add? —— ♻️ Repost to help other learn AI. 🙏 Thanks to @PreciselyData for sponsoring this post. ➕ Follow me ( Nikki Siapno ) to improve at AI and system design.
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𝗛𝗧𝗧𝗣, 𝗛𝗧𝗧𝗣 𝟮, 𝗛𝗧𝗧𝗣 𝟯: 𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀? HTTP now powers complex modern applications, but it started as a simple protocol for retrieving documents. 𝗛𝗧𝗧𝗣/𝟬.𝟵 only supported a single GET request with no headers or status codes; just raw HTML from the server. It was simple and fast, but lacked structure and scalability. 𝗛𝗧𝗧𝗣/𝟭.𝟬 introduced headers, status codes, and content types, making the web more structured and extensible, but required a new TCP connection for every request, which didn’t scale well. 𝗛𝗧𝗧𝗣/𝟭.𝟭 added persistent connections, caching, and chunked transfer, making web interactions more efficient, but still suffered from head-of-line blocking and connection overhead at scale. 𝗛𝗧𝗧𝗣𝗦 is HTTP layered over TLS, providing encryption, integrity, and authentication, securing communication over the internet, but adds handshake overhead and operational complexity. 𝗛𝗧𝗧𝗣/𝟮 introduced multiplexing, binary framing, and header compression, allowing multiple requests over a single connection, improving performance, but still relies on TCP and suffers from transport-level blocking. 𝗛𝗧𝗧𝗣/𝟯 runs over QUIC (UDP) with built-in TLS 1.3, enabling independent streams, faster handshakes, and reduced latency, but introduces more complexity in infrastructure and network handling. From per-request connections → to multiplexing over TCP → to QUIC and independent streams. That’s the evolution of HTTP. 📌 If you want to learn more, dive deeper here: lucode.co/evolution-of-http-… What else would you add?
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From @0xDeliriumm … LLMs Explained — From Tokens to Intelligent Behavior — They Optimize and The Math Behind It
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📣 CREATE Weekly Briefing – Issue 3 Four things worth knowing in education this week: 🏫 Ofsted inspection findings 📝 KS2 assessment deadlines 💻 Digital curriculum research 🎓 Post-16 funding & apprenticeships 👉 hubs.ly/Q04zT8GK0
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Writing clean, pythonic code isn't about bloating your codebase with boilerplate; it's about mastering high-impact expression patterns that optimize execution density. While junior developers waste lines on verbose loops, production-grade logic leverages streamlined structural primitives. Save this core reference blueprint to audit your data transformation scripts and clean up your production repositories tomorrow! 📌
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𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗔𝗜 = 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗚𝗣𝗧. Not even close. ChatGPT is what you see. The real AI revolution is the massive ecosystem being built underneath it. This AI Stack Map captures 100+ tools powering modern AI applications. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀: LLMs → OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Mistral Agentic AI → LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, CAMEL, Agno RAG → LangChain, LlamaIndex, Haystack, GraphRAG Embeddings → OpenAI, Voyage, Cohere, BGE MCP → Connecting models with tools, data and systems AI Security → Guardrails, Presidio, Lakera, Prompt Security Observability & Evals → LangSmith, Langfuse, Phoenix, Ragas Memory → Redis, Mem0, Zep, Neo4j, Chroma Agent Frameworks → OpenAI SDK, Semantic Kernel, Google ADK, Bedrock Automation → n8n, Zapier, Make, Airflow, Prefect Vector Databases → Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, Milvus, pgvector But here’s the part that matters more than the logos. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁. It’s a dependency graph. Your RAG is only as good as your retrieval + embeddings. Your agent is only as reliable as its tools + evaluations + guardrails. Your memory is useless if you can’t observe when context becomes stale or wrong. Your MCP layer becomes dangerous if permissions and governance are an afterthought. And a “best-in-class” stack can still become a terrible production system. Why? Because AI systems rarely fail only inside one component. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗳𝗳𝘀. Model → Retrieval Retrieval → Context Context → Agent Agent → Tool Tool → Memory Memory → Evaluation That’s where latency compounds, context gets lost, permissions leak, hallucinations propagate and reliability starts falling apart. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗼𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀. It’s designing how they work together. A stack map tells you 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 exists. Production engineering decides 𝗛𝗢𝗪 it all survives contact with reality. Which tool in your AI stack has become indispensable? Save this map for your next AI build. Repost it for someone designing an AI architecture. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GenAI
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Inside an ATM: How cash actually gets dispensed! 🏧💵💵
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The Human Eye
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🤖 Best YouTube Channels to Learn AI in 2026 1. AI Explained 👉 youtube.com/@aiexplained-o… 2. Andrej Karpathy 👉 youtube.com/@AndrejKarpathy 3. Cole Medin 👉 youtube.com/@WesRoth 4. DeepLearningAI 👉 youtube.com/@DeeplearningAI 5. Futurepedia 👉 youtube.com/@futurepedia_io 6. Matthew Berman 👉 youtube.com/@matthew_berman 7. Skill Leap AI 👉 youtube.com/@SkillLeapAI 8. Tech With Tim 👉 youtube.com/@TechWithTim 9. Tina Huang 👉 youtube.com/@TinaHuang1 10. Two Minute Papers 👉 youtube.com/@TwoMinutePapers Follow @Hey_GraceWilson for more AI ideas 🚀
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Participate in the Rediscovered Event, and earn brand new Anti-Gorn and Temporal weapons! playstartrekonline.com/en/ne…
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Learn AI for free directly from top companies. 1 - Anthropic: anthropic.skilljar.com 2 - Google: grow.google/ai 3 - Meta: ai.meta.com/resources/ 4 - NVIDIA: developer.nvidia.com/cuda 5 - Microsoft: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/tr… 6 - OpenAI: academy.openai.com 7 - IBM: skillsbuild.org 8 - AWS: skillbuilder.aws 9 - DeepLearning.AI: deeplearning.ai 10 - Hugging Face: huggingface.co/learn Comment "Learning" if you find this helpful. Repost so others can take help. Must bookmark for future reference.
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Layers of AI
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When Did These Things Come Into Existence? 1. 🌐 World Wide Web - 1991 2. 📱 Smartphones - 1994 3. 🛒 Amazon - 1994 4. 🟨 Yahoo! - 1994 5. 🔳 QR Code - 1994 6. 🛍️ eBay - 1995 7. 📀 DVD - 1996 8. 📱 Nokia 9000 Communicator - 1996 9. 💳 PayPal - 1998 10. 📧 Hotmail - 1996 11. 💬 ICQ - 1996 12. 🔌 USB - 1996 13. 📶 Wi-Fi - 1997 14. 🎬 Netflix - 1997 15. 📺 Digital TV - 1998 16. 🔎 Google - 1998 17. 🟦 Bluetooth - 1999 18. 📷 Camera Phones - 1999 19. 📱 BlackBerry - 1999 20. 📹 TiVo - 1999 21. 🎵 Napster - 1999 22. 📝 Blogger - 1999 23. 🎮 PlayStation 2 - 2000 24. 📖 Wikipedia - 2001 25. 🎵 iPod - 2001 26. 🎮 Xbox - 2001 27. 💼 LinkedIn - 2003 28. 🎮 Steam - 2003 29. 📞 Skype - 2003 30. 👥 Facebook - 2004 31. 📧 Gmail - 2004 32. 📸 Flickr - 2004 33. 🌐 Google Earth - 2005 34. ▶️ YouTube - 2005 35. 🗺️ Google Maps - 2005 36. 🎮 Nintendo Wii - 2006 37. 🐦 Twitter - 2006 38. 💿 Blu-ray - 2006 39. 📱 iPhone - 2007 40. 📚 Kindle - 2007 41. 📂 Dropbox - 2007 42. 🤖 Android - 2008 43. 🛍️ App Store - 2008 44. 🎵 Spotify - 2008 45. 🏠 Airbnb - 2008 46. 🚗 Tesla Roadster - 2008 47. 💻 Google Chrome - 2008 48. 💬 WhatsApp - 2009 49. 🚕 Uber - 2009 50. ₿ Bitcoin - 2009
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