AI Agents and Workflows Crash Course

In this book, we take you on a fun, hands-on and pragmatic journey to learning AI agents and workflows. You'll start building your first AI workflow within minutes. Every chapter is written straight to the point as I don't want to waste your time (and most certainly mine) on the content you don't need.

In the course of this book, we will cover:
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Building AI Workflows and Applications
Chapter 3: Creating Complex Workflows with Multiple Steps and Models
Chapter 4: Running Open-Source Models Locally with Ollama
Chapter 5: Structured Outputs
Chapter 6: Integrating Image Generation into Your Workflow
Chapter 7: Parallel and Repeating Workflow Patterns
Chapter 8: Adding a 'Human' in the Loop
Chapter 9: Integrating External Services
Chapter 10: Building AI Agents
Chapter 11: Leveraging OpenAI's Function Calling
Chapter 12: Creating a Multi-Tool Clinic Assistant Agent
Chapter 13: Designing Reusable Components with Classes
Chapter 14: Introduction to Multi-Agent Systems
Chapter 15: Working with CrewAI - A Third Party AI Agents SDK

The goal of this book is to teach you AI agents and workflows in a manageable way without overwhelming you. We focus only on the essentials and cover the material in a hands-on practice manner for you to code along.

Working Through This Book

The book takes a practical hands on approach to learning through practice. You learn best when you code along with the examples in the book.

Requirements

You should have basic programming knowledge.