Stop Just Reading Tutorials and Build Something, Even if Useless: How to Learn GenAI Agents
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Practical guide to learning GenAI agents by building simple, intentionally 'useless' prototypes (e.g., a bad joke generator or a failed calendar organizer) instead of only reading papers and tutorials. Emphasizes hands-on experimentation with agent code, using small token experiments and iterative breaking/fixing, aimed at non-ML experts to overcome analysis paralysis and learn by doing.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Welcome
- 2:57What are AI agents
- 5:48Google Cloud credits
- 10:05Power of useless projects
- 13:42ADK: Agent dev kit
- 19:23Read vs build
- 23:25Case studies
- 26:32Q&A
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