Ask HN: Learning resources for building AI agents?

I’ve recently gone through several materials, including Antonio Gulli’s AI Agentic Design Patterns, Sam Bhagwat’s Principles of Building AI Agents and Patterns for Building AI Agents, as well as the courses from LangGraph Academy and some content on DataCamp.

This space is evolving very quickly, so I’m curious how others here are approaching learning. What resources, courses, papers, or hands-on approaches have you found most useful while building AI agents?

10 points | by 7e10 3 days ago

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  • tianzheng-zhou 17 hours ago
    You can ask Claude or ChatGPT for help, or study the architecture of current well-known open-source agents.
  • stochtinkerer 2 days ago
    Just start building my man. Would highly advise keeping it minimal, just use OpenAI Agents SDK. Most of these frameworks are overengineered af
  • jsilence 3 days ago
    Calibra might help to put some benchmark numbers on your prototypes: https://calibra.swival.dev/
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    • 7e10 3 days ago
      yes, thanks! I have been building along the way, coded an Agent that works with google analytics 4 and some more, full stack Mern+langgraph. . however, interesting to know what others are learning.. More in the direction of building autonomous agents because using langgraph does not really seem truly autonomous or maybe i’m doing something wrong.
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    • 7e10 2 days ago
      sure, thanks!
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