AI for Beginners: Use Agents With Confidence

Sarah Jane Ross 25 Lessons 1h 23m Updated basics ai

AI agents don’t just answer questions anymore. They read your files, search the web, and take actions on your behalf. In this video course, you’ll learn what’s happening behind the chat box, so you can get better results from AI tools and decide what to let them do.

By the end of this course, you’ll understand that:

  • An AI app is a model that does the thinking, plus a harness that carries out the actions, and many confusing replies come from that split.
  • A model works only with what’s in its context, so what you hand it shapes every answer.
  • Before an agent works for you, you can check where it runs, what it can touch, what gets sent, and who sees it.
  • Asking well and starting fresh at the right time get you better results and use fewer tokens.
  • Skills let you package a job once and reuse it, and you can build your own.

Along the way, you’ll practice in interactive apps and guided mentor sessions, then finish by finding and fixing five problems in an AI assistant’s setup.

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About Sarah Jane Ross

Sarah Jane manages content operations at Real Python, leveraging more than ten years of remote-workflow expertise to refine metrics, SEO, and processes that support the team in delivering high-quality Python education.

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