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PATH 01 · AI

Build with agents.

Build with the new generation of agents - from the model itself to the design tools, frameworks, and the people whose work is moving the field.

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Three angles on the current generation of AI - the assistant most teams build on, the design tool from the same lab, and the engineers worth following as the agentic field evolves.

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MAP · AGENTIC AI / LEVEL 101

Agentic AI stack

The agent slice walked in full - the idea, the window, the extensions, the architectures, production, and the frameworks - with three reading orders for different readers.

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MAP · AI / LEVEL 101

AI stack

One page that ties the AI library together - every article sorted by layer (foundations, models, protocols, agents, production, extensions, tools), with a one-line reason and three reading orders for different readers.

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MAP · AI / LEVEL 101

AI for developers

The narrower cut - just the AI tools that show up in a developer's day-to-day. Coding with Copilot or Claude Code, designing with Claude, generating images, plus the model and protocol underneath.

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AI · SEARCH / LEVEL 101

AI answers and search

Answer engines write you a paragraph instead of ten links - but crawl, index, and rank still run underneath. What retrieval-augmented generation changes, and what it leaves exactly where it was.

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AI · DEVELOPER TOOLS / LEVEL 101

What is GitHub Copilot?

The AI pair programmer that lives inside your editor - inline completions, a chat sidebar, agent mode, and a model picker that now spans OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

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AI · CODING TOOLS / LEVEL 101

GitHub Copilot and Claude Code

The two AI pair programmers most developers reach for today - one in the editor, one in the terminal. How they differ, when to pick which, and why a lot of teams use both.

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AI · TEMPERAMENT / LEVEL 101

Copilot vs Claude Code: engineer vs artist

The focused essay on the one axis that most decides which AI pair programmer fits which task. One tool ships clean parts; the other proposes whole designs.

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AI · CONTEXT / LEVEL 101

What's in an agent's context?

The six things sitting in the window on any given turn, what each one costs, and what gets thrown away when it fills up.

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AI · FUNDAMENTALS / LEVEL 101

What is an LLM?

The engine underneath every AI product you use - what a token is, what the model is actually doing, why it invents things, and why it cannot remember yesterday.

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AI · FUNDAMENTALS / LEVEL 101

Model, LLM, foundation model

Three words used as if they were interchangeable, plus the two labels that started causing trouble in 2026 - and when to use which.

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AI · AGENTS / LEVEL 201

What an agent actually costs

Why a run costs many times what its prompt suggests, where the money goes, and the gap between an agent that works and one you can afford to run every day.

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AI · ORCHESTRATION / LEVEL 201

Multi-agent orchestration patterns

Orchestrator-workers, pipelines, fan-out, critique, routing - the five ways production systems wire agents together, and how to pick the least dynamic one that fits.

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AI · AGENTS / LEVEL 201

Multi-agent systems

The move from one agent that does everything to several that each do one thing well - why teams make it, and what the handoffs cost.

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AI · AGENTS / LEVEL 301

How to evaluate an agent

A chatbot answer is one artifact you can read. An agent run is twenty hidden steps and a confident summary - what to measure, and how to catch quality sliding rather than breaking.

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AI · AGENTS / LEVEL 301

Why agents fail

The failure modes that only show up once an agent leaves the demo - runaway loops, exhausted context, compounding errors, and the one that costs most: a run that reports success on work it never did.

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AI · AGENTS / LEVEL 101

What is Agentic AI?

A short, honest tour of the term everyone is using - what agentic AI actually means, how it differs from a chatbot, the loop that powers it, and where it earns its keep in real work.

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AI · AGENTS / LEVEL 201

What are Agent Skills?

Portable, composable units of expertise an agent can load on demand - the way you teach Claude (or any modern LLM agent) to do specialised work without rebuilding the model around it.

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AI · ASSISTANT / LEVEL 101

What is Claude?

Anthropic's AI assistant - a family of large language models built for conversational reasoning, writing, coding, and analysis, with safety as a first-class design goal.

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AI · TRAINING / LEVEL 101

Learn Claude: courses and certifications

Anthropic's free course catalog and its four proctored exams - what exists, what each credential costs, which track fits you, and the order to work through it in.

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AI · DEVELOPER TOOL / LEVEL 201

What is Claude Code?

Anthropic's coding agent that runs in your terminal - reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands, and ships features. Claude with your shell at its disposal.

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AI · KNOWLEDGE WORK / LEVEL 101

What is Claude Cowork?

Anthropic's agent for knowledge work - hand it a goal and it plans and runs the multi-step task across your files and tools, returning a finished deck, doc, sheet, or brief. Same engine as Claude Code, no terminal.

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AI · AGENT TOOLS / LEVEL 201

Claude Code vs Claude Cowork

Two agents, one engine, two jobs - knowledge work versus software engineering. Where each lives, what it acts on, what it hands back, and how to tell which a task belongs to.

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AI · PLUGINS / LEVEL 201

What are Claude Code plugins?

Bundle skills, MCP connections, hooks, and agents into one installable unit - what a plugin is made of, how a marketplace serves it, and how install and updates actually work.

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AI · AGENTS / LEVEL 201

Skills, MCP, Hooks, and Plugins

The building blocks you extend an agent with - instructions it reads, live links to your tools and data, deterministic guardrails, and the plugin that bundles them. One overview, with links to the deep dives.

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AI · CASE STUDY / LEVEL 101

Claude Code is a Magician

A real 2018 snake game - ASP.NET Core, gulp, .cshtml, scattered JavaScript - migrated to HTML5 + TypeScript + esbuild in a single Claude Code session. Twenty minutes of work, screenshot by screenshot.

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AI · DESIGN TOOLS / LEVEL 101

What is Claude Design?

Describe what you want and an AI designer builds it as a working artifact - mockups, prototypes, and decks your whole team clicks, comments on, and changes in one place.

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AI · FRAMEWORK / LEVEL 201

What is Microsoft Agent Framework?

Microsoft's open-source framework for building agentic AI applications - the successor to AutoGen, with first-class C# and Python SDKs and an Azure AI Foundry integration.

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AI · FRAMEWORKS / LEVEL 101

AI Agent Frameworks

The six frameworks teams reach for when they move from one-off prompts to real agents - LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, and Microsoft Agent Framework, lined up side by side.

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AI · PROTOCOL / LEVEL 101

What is Model Context Protocol?

The open standard for connecting AI assistants to the tools and data they need - one protocol every model speaks, one server every host can plug into.

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AI · AGENTS / LEVEL 101

Functions, MCP, and Skills

Three building blocks people keep mixing up - the unit of action, the protocol that plugs it in, and the folder of know-how that tells the agent when to use it.

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AI · IMAGE GENERATION / LEVEL 101

What is Nano Banana?

Google's image generation model - real-time, conversational image creation inside Gemini, the Gemini API, and the wider Google creative stack.

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AI · IMAGE GENERATION / LEVEL 101

What Nano Banana can do?

The capability tour - vibe edits, style transfer from a reference, legible in-image text, infographics on Pro, and the Fast / Thinking / Pro speed picker.

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AI · IMAGE GENERATION / LEVEL 101

What is GPT Image?

OpenAI's image model family - gpt-image-2 and its siblings, the two APIs that reach them, and what each quality knob actually costs.

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AI · MEMORY / LEVEL 101

What is a CLAUDE.md file?

The plain markdown file Claude Code reads at the start of every session - what belongs in it, where the four scopes live, how they load, and how it differs from auto memory.

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