<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>aifromzero.dev — AI Engineering Courses</title><description>Free, code-first online courses on AI engineering — from first API call to production systems.</description><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>The GenAI Developer on AWS: Bedrock, Models, and Your First Converse Call (AWS GenAI Developer Pro, Module 1)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-01/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-01/</guid><description>Make your first Amazon Bedrock Converse API call in boto3: models, inference profiles, account hygiene. Start AIP-C01 prep with Module 1.</description></item><item><title>When (Not) to Fine-Tune: The Post-Training Landscape (Fine-Tuning in Production, Module 1)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-01/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-01/</guid><description>When to fine-tune vs RAG vs prompting, the post-training landscape (SFT, LoRA, DPO, GRPO), and a Qwen3-4B baseline. Free course, Module 1.</description></item><item><title>Why LangGraph? From a While-Loop Agent to a Graph (LangGraph in Production, Module 01)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-01/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-01/</guid><description>Why LangGraph beats a while-loop agent: nodes, edges, state, and the LangChain 1.0 split. Set up v1.x and run your first StateGraph.</description></item><item><title>What Is Agentic AI? From LLM Calls to Autonomous Agents (NCP-AAI Module 1)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/ncp-aai/module-01/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/ncp-aai/module-01/</guid><description>What agentic AI really is — LLM calls vs workflows vs autonomous agents — plus your first NVIDIA NIM call. Free NCP-AAI course, Module 1.</description></item><item><title>What Are Code Agents? From LLM Calls to smolagents (smolagents, Module 1)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-01/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-01/</guid><description>What code agents are and why smolagents writes Python instead of JSON — the spectrum of agency, CodeAct, and your first CodeAgent. Free course, Module 1.</description></item><item><title>Prompt Engineering in Production: Templates, Structured Output, and Prompt Management (AWS GenAI Developer Pro, Module 2)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-02/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-02/</guid><description>Production prompt engineering on AWS: structured JSON output, Bedrock Prompt Management versioning, and prompt regression tests. AIP-C01 Module 2.</description></item><item><title>Data Is the Model: Curation and Chat Templates (Fine-Tuning in Production, Module 2)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-02/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-02/</guid><description>Curate a tool-calling dataset and format it with apply_chat_template — never hand-roll the prompt. Chat template fine-tuning, Module 2.</description></item><item><title>StateGraph Fundamentals: State, Reducers, Nodes, and Edges (LangGraph in Production, Module 02)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-02/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-02/</guid><description>Master LangGraph state: TypedDict schemas, channels, reducers (add_messages, operator.add), MessagesState, and the builder. LangGraph v1.x, Module 2.</description></item><item><title>Build Your First AI Agent: Tool Calling from Scratch to LangGraph (NCP-AAI Module 2)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/ncp-aai/module-02/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/ncp-aai/module-02/</guid><description>Learn tool calling by building a ReAct agent from scratch, then in LangGraph with NVIDIA NIM. Module 2 of the free NCP-AAI course.</description></item><item><title>Your First CodeAgent: The ReAct Loop, Step by Step (smolagents, Module 2)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-02/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-02/</guid><description>Watch a smolagents CodeAgent run the ReAct loop step by step: write pandas, hit an error, self-correct, and call final_answer. Module 2.</description></item><item><title>The FM Integration Layer: Model Selection, Routing, Streaming, and Resilience (AWS GenAI Developer Pro, Module 3)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-03/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-03/</guid><description>Amazon Bedrock model routing, cross-Region inference, ConverseStream, and retry backoff: build the FM integration layer the AIP-C01 exam expects.</description></item><item><title>Your First Fine-Tune: SFT from Scratch (Fine-Tuning in Production, Module 3)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-03/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-03/</guid><description>Fine-tune your first LLM with TRL&apos;s SFTTrainer and SFTConfig — the correct v1 idioms (processing_class, max_length), hyperparameters, and loss curves.</description></item><item><title>Control Flow: Conditional Edges, Command, and Self-Correcting Cycles (LangGraph in Production, Module 03)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-03/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-03/</guid><description>Add control flow to a LangGraph agent: conditional edges, the Command primitive, and a bounded self-correcting test-fix cycle. Module 3 of LangGraph in Production.</description></item><item><title>Agent Architecture: Patterns, Trade-offs, and When Not to Build an Agent (NCP-AAI Module 3)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/ncp-aai/module-03/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/ncp-aai/module-03/</guid><description>Master AI agent architecture: chains, routers, supervisors — and when not to build an agent. NCP-AAI Module 3 covers exam Domain 1 (15%).</description></item><item><title>Tools: Giving Quill New Powers (smolagents, Module 3)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-03/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-03/</guid><description>Give a smolagents CodeAgent real powers: build custom tools with @tool and the Tool class, plus web search. smolagents Module 3.</description></item><item><title>RAG Foundations: Chunking, Embeddings, and Vector Stores (AWS GenAI Developer Pro, Module 4)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-04/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-04/</guid><description>RAG foundations on AWS: chunking strategies, Titan embeddings, and Amazon S3 Vectors. Build DIY retrieval before managed KBs. AIP-C01 Module 4, Domain 1.</description></item><item><title>LoRA: Train 1% of the Weights (Fine-Tuning in Production, Module 4)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-04/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-04/</guid><description>LoRA freezes the base and trains a tiny B·A adapter — learn r vs alpha, target_modules=&apos;all-linear&apos;, and ship a few-MB adapter. Free course, Module 4.</description></item><item><title>Tools and the Agent Loop: ToolNode, create_agent, and Structured Output (LangGraph in Production, Module 04)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-04/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-04/</guid><description>Build a LangGraph agent the v1 way: read-only tools, ToolNode, create_agent (not create_react_agent), and a structured Plan via response_format.</description></item><item><title>Cognition: How Agents Plan, Reason, and Self-Correct (NCP-AAI Module 4)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/ncp-aai/module-04/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/ncp-aai/module-04/</guid><description>How AI agents plan, reason, and self-correct: ReAct vs plan-and-execute, reflection loops, reasoning budgets. NCP-AAI Module 4, Domain 5.</description></item><item><title>Models and Providers: What Powers Your Agent (smolagents, Module 4)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-04/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-04/</guid><description>Wire any LLM into smolagents — InferenceClientModel, LiteLLM, or local — with one make_model() factory, plus the real cost truth. Module 4.</description></item><item><title>Managed RAG: Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Hybrid Search, and Rerankers (AWS GenAI Developer Pro, Module 5)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-05/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-05/</guid><description>Managed RAG on AWS: Bedrock Knowledge Bases with S3 Vectors, hybrid search, rerankers, citations, and data sync. AIP-C01 Module 5, Domain 1.</description></item><item><title>Make It Fit a Free GPU: QLoRA from Scratch (Fine-Tuning in Production, Module 5)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-05/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-05/</guid><description>Fit your fine-tune on a free 16 GB Colab T4 with QLoRA: 4-bit NF4, the VRAM budget, OOM fixes — and why it&apos;s not a deploy format. Module 5.</description></item><item><title>Parallel Work: The Send API, Map-Reduce, and Fan-out/Fan-in (LangGraph in Production, Module 05)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-05/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-05/</guid><description>Fan out N tasks in parallel with LangGraph&apos;s Send API, aggregate results with operator.add, and gate the fan-in with defer=True. Module 5 of LangGraph in Production.</description></item><item><title>Agent Memory: State, Persistence, and Long-Term Recall (NCP-AAI Module 5)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/ncp-aai/module-05/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/ncp-aai/module-05/</guid><description>Give your AI agent memory: LangGraph checkpointers, session persistence, and long-term recall. NCP-AAI Module 5, with a hands-on lab.</description></item><item><title>Running Untrusted Code Safely: Sandboxing smolagents (smolagents, Module 5)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-05/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-05/</guid><description>Run a smolagents CodeAgent&apos;s untrusted code safely: the threat model, the LocalPythonExecutor&apos;s limits, and Docker/E2B sandboxing. Module 5.</description></item><item><title>Data Pipelines for FMs: Validation, Multimodal Input, and Document Processing (AWS GenAI Developer Pro, Module 6)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-06/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-06/</guid><description>Validate, normalize, and format Bedrock multimodal input: images via Converse, Comprehend, Bedrock Data Automation. AIP-C01 Module 6, Domain 1.</description></item><item><title>Go Faster: Unsloth and Config-as-Code (Axolotl) (Fine-Tuning in Production, Module 6)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-06/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-06/</guid><description>Replay Anvil&apos;s QLoRA faster with Unsloth (measured), and write the same fine-tune as one Axolotl YAML — optional accelerators, no lock-in. Module 6.</description></item><item><title>Persistence: Checkpointers, Threads, and Resumable Runs (LangGraph in Production, Module 06)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-06/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-06/</guid><description>Make your LangGraph agent crash-proof: SqliteSaver, thread_id scoping, get_state, and pending writes. Module 6 of LangGraph in Production.</description></item><item><title>Agentic RAG: Build a Citation-Grounded Knowledge Pipeline with NVIDIA NIM (NCP-AAI Module 6)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/ncp-aai/module-06/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/ncp-aai/module-06/</guid><description>Build an agentic RAG pipeline with NVIDIA NIM embeddings, Chroma, and reranking — chunking, grounding, and citations for the NCP-AAI exam.</description></item><item><title>Give Your Agent a Memory: State, Steps, and Inspecting Runs (smolagents, Module 6)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-06/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-06/</guid><description>How smolagents memory works: read agent.memory.steps, continue runs with reset=False, prune context in a step_callback, and replay. Module 6.</description></item><item><title>Agentic AI on AWS: Strands Agents, Tool Calling, and MCP (AWS GenAI Developer Pro, Module 7)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-07/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-07/</guid><description>Build an AWS agent with Strands Agents: tool calling, stop conditions, and an MCP server on Lambda. AIP-C01 Module 7, Domain 2.</description></item><item><title>Is It Any Better? Task-Grounded Evaluation (Fine-Tuning in Production, Module 7)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-07/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-07/</guid><description>How to evaluate a fine-tuned LLM: valid-JSON, function-name &amp; argument metrics, base-vs-finetuned, catastrophic forgetting, LLM-judge bias. Module 7.</description></item><item><title>Human-in-the-Loop: interrupt(), Approval, and Editing the Plan (LangGraph in Production, Module 07)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-07/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-07/</guid><description>Add two HITL checkpoints to Forge with interrupt() and Command(resume=): plan approval before editing, PR approval before shipping. LangGraph v1.x.</description></item><item><title>Build a Multi-Agent System with LangGraph: Supervisors, Swarms, and Handoffs (NCP-AAI Module 7)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/ncp-aai/module-07/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/ncp-aai/module-07/</guid><description>Design multi-agent systems with supervisors, swarms, and handoffs in LangGraph — plus MCP and A2A — for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI exam (Module 7).</description></item><item><title>Make Your Agent Reliable and Frugal: Planning and Building Good Agents (smolagents, Module 7)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-07/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-07/</guid><description>Make a smolagents agent reliable and frugal: planning_interval, instructions vs system prompt, and the 6 rules for good agents. Module 7.</description></item><item><title>Multi-Agent Systems and Bedrock AgentCore: Runtime, Memory, and HITL (AWS GenAI Developer Pro, Module 8)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-08/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-08/</guid><description>Deploy a multi-agent system on Bedrock AgentCore: Runtime, persistent memory, handoff, and human-in-the-loop. AIP-C01 Module 8, Domain 2.</description></item><item><title>Align It: Preference Tuning with DPO (Fine-Tuning in Production, Module 8)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-08/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-08/</guid><description>DPO vs RLHF: why DPO replaced PPO as the default, building chosen/rejected pairs, the frozen reference model, and tuning beta. Module 8.</description></item><item><title>Time-Travel: State History, Replay, and Forking a Bad Run (LangGraph in Production, Module 08)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-08/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-08/</guid><description>Walk, replay, and fork a failed LangGraph run: get_state_history, update_state, and checkpoint_id in one hands-on Forge debug. Module 8 of LangGraph in Production.</description></item><item><title>Evaluating AI Agents: Metrics, LLM-as-Judge, and Tuning (NCP-AAI Module 8)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/ncp-aai/module-08/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/ncp-aai/module-08/</guid><description>Evaluate AI agents with golden sets, task metrics, and a calibrated LLM-as-judge, then tune with proof — NCP-AAI Domain 3 (13%), hands-on.</description></item><item><title>Reliable Agents: Structured Output, Validation, and Errors (smolagents, Module 8)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-08/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-08/</guid><description>Make a smolagents agent reliable: structured output vs final_answer_checks, the AgentError hierarchy, and self-correction. Module 8.</description></item><item><title>Safety Engineering: Guardrails, Prompt Injection, and Hallucination Control (AWS GenAI Developer Pro, Module 9)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-09/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-09/</guid><description>Bedrock Guardrails, prompt injection defense, and hallucination control for a production GenAI agent on AWS. AIP-C01 Module 9, Domain 3.</description></item><item><title>The DPO Family: ORPO, KTO, SimPO — and When to Use Each (Fine-Tuning in Production, Module 9)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-09/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-09/</guid><description>DPO&apos;s family — ORPO, KTO, SimPO: which one for YOUR data? Reference model, pairwise vs binary, single-stage — a decision tree. Module 9.</description></item><item><title>Durable Execution, Resilience, and Sandboxing (LangGraph in Production, Module 09)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-09/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-09/</guid><description>Make your LangGraph agent production-durable: durability modes, RetryPolicy on flaky nodes, CachePolicy, and a hardened sandbox. Module 9 of LangGraph in Production.</description></item><item><title>Guardrails and Human Oversight: Safe Agents by Design (NCP-AAI Module 9)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/ncp-aai/module-09/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/ncp-aai/module-09/</guid><description>Add NeMo Guardrails and human-in-the-loop approval to a LangGraph agent. Block prompt injection and ship safe agents — NCP-AAI Module 9.</description></item><item><title>Plug Quill Into Any Ecosystem: MCP, the Hub, and Tool Interop (smolagents, Module 9)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-09/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-09/</guid><description>Connect a smolagents agent to MCP servers, load tools from the Hub, and publish your own — with the security gates that matter. Module 9.</description></item><item><title>Security, Privacy, and Governance: IAM, PII, and Responsible AI (AWS GenAI Developer Pro, Module 10)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-10/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-10/</guid><description>GenAI security on AWS: PII redaction with Comprehend, IAM least privilege, audit trails, model cards, responsible AI. AIP-C01 Module 10, Domain 3.</description></item><item><title>Teach It to Reason: GRPO and Verifiable Rewards (Fine-Tuning in Production, Module 10)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-10/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-10/</guid><description>GRPO tutorial: train a reasoning model with verifiable rewards (RLVR) — PPO without the critic, a deterministic reward_fn, on a free or rented GPU.</description></item><item><title>Long-Term Memory: the Store and Semantic Recall (LangGraph in Production, Module 10)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-10/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-10/</guid><description>Add cross-thread long-term memory to a LangGraph agent: the Store, namespaces, semantic recall with a free local embedder. Module 10 of LangGraph in Production.</description></item><item><title>Deploying AI Agents: From Notebook to Production API (NCP-AAI Module 10)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/ncp-aai/module-10/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/ncp-aai/module-10/</guid><description>Turn your LangGraph agent into a production API: FastAPI async jobs, Docker, scaling, and cost trade-offs. NCP-AAI Module 10 (Deployment, 13%).</description></item><item><title>Multi-Agent Systems: Quill Gets a Research Team (smolagents, Module 10)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-10/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-10/</guid><description>Build a smolagents multi-agent system: a manager CodeAgent over a web_researcher sub-agent with managed_agents (orchestrator-workers). Module 10.</description></item><item><title>Shipping Relay: Serverless Deployment, Enterprise Integration, and CI/CD (AWS GenAI Developer Pro, Module 11)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-11/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-11/</guid><description>Serverless GenAI deployment on AWS: API Gateway + Lambda, async SQS, EventBridge, CDK, and CI/CD with rollback. AIP-C01 Module 11, Domain 2.</description></item><item><title>Free Capability Boosts: Model Merging with mergekit (Fine-Tuning in Production, Module 11)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-11/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-11/</guid><description>Merge two fine-tuned models into one with mergekit — no training, no GPU: SLERP vs TIES vs DARE, interference, and re-eval. Model merging, Module 11.</description></item><item><title>Streaming: Modes, Tokens, and Real-Time Progress (LangGraph in Production, Module 11)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-11/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-11/</guid><description>Master LangGraph streaming: 7 modes, token streaming, custom progress events with get_stream_writer, and astream_events v2. Module 11 of LangGraph in Production.</description></item><item><title>Running Agents in Production: Observability, Cost, and Maintenance (NCP-AAI Module 11)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/ncp-aai/module-11/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/ncp-aai/module-11/</guid><description>Run AI agents in production: end-to-end tracing, cost per node, drift detection, and continuous evals. NCP-AAI Module 11, with a Langfuse lab.</description></item><item><title>Vision and Multimodal: Quill Reads Charts and the Web (smolagents, Module 11)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-11/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-11/</guid><description>Give a smolagents agent eyes: pass images with run(images=...), pick a VLM, and screenshot pages via step_callbacks. Module 11.</description></item><item><title>The Token Economy: Cost and Performance Optimization for GenAI (AWS GenAI Developer Pro, Module 12)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-12/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-12/</guid><description>Cut GenAI costs on AWS: prompt caching, semantic caching, batch inference, and the Flex tier — measured per-ticket. AIP-C01 Module 12, Domain 4.</description></item><item><title>Shrink It for Serving: GGUF, AWQ, GPTQ (Fine-Tuning in Production, Module 12)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-12/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-12/</guid><description>Convert model to GGUF, AWQ, or GPTQ: merge_and_unload your fine-tuned adapter, quantize for inference, and pick the format by hardware. Module 12.</description></item><item><title>Subgraphs and Multi-Agent Systems: Supervisor, Swarm, and Handoffs (LangGraph in Production, Module 12)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-12/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-12/</guid><description>Build multi-agent Forge with LangGraph v1.x subgraphs, a hand-built Supervisor, and Command handoffs — without langgraph-supervisor (broken-forward). Module 12.</description></item><item><title>The NVIDIA Agentic Stack: NIM, NeMo, and Nemotron in Practice (NCP-AAI Module 12)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/ncp-aai/module-12/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/ncp-aai/module-12/</guid><description>Map the NVIDIA agentic stack — NIM, NeMo, Nemotron, Agent Toolkit — and profile a real agent with NAT. NCP-AAI Module 12 (NVIDIA Platform, 7%).</description></item><item><title>Agentic RAG: Grounding Quill in a Knowledge Base (smolagents, Module 12)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-12/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-12/</guid><description>Ground a smolagents agent in a knowledge base: a RetrieverTool (BM25) the agent calls and reformulates, with cited sources. Module 12.</description></item><item><title>Evaluating GenAI Applications: Bedrock Evaluations, LLM-as-a-Judge, and RAG Metrics (AWS GenAI Developer Pro, Module 13)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-13/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-13/</guid><description>Evaluate GenAI apps on AWS: Bedrock Evaluations, LLM-as-a-judge, RAG metrics, and a CI regression gate. AIP-C01 Module 13, Domain 5.</description></item><item><title>Serve It: vLLM, Ollama, and TGI (Fine-Tuning in Production, Module 13)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-13/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-13/</guid><description>Serve a fine-tuned model two ways: vLLM over the LoRA adapter (--enable-lora) and Ollama over the merged GGUF. Measure latency. Module 13.</description></item><item><title>The Functional API: @entrypoint, @task, and When to Use It (LangGraph in Production, Module 13)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-13/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-13/</guid><description>LangGraph&apos;s Functional API in practice: @entrypoint, @task, previous, entrypoint.final, and when to choose it over the Graph API. Module 13 of LangGraph in Production.</description></item><item><title>Capstone: Ship Scout, a Production-Grade Research Assistant (NCP-AAI Module 13)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/ncp-aai/module-13/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/ncp-aai/module-13/</guid><description>Assemble, harden, and ship a multi-agent research assistant: retries, timeouts, production checklist, v1.0 release. NCP-AAI capstone, Module 13.</description></item><item><title>Deploying Quill: Gradio UI, the Hub, and the CLI (smolagents, Module 13)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-13/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-13/</guid><description>Ship a smolagents agent: wrap it in a GradioUI with CSV upload, push it to the Hub as a Space, and run it from the CLI. Module 13.</description></item><item><title>Operating GenAI in Production: Observability, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting (AWS GenAI Developer Pro, Module 14)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-14/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-14/</guid><description>GenAI observability on AWS: invocation logs, CloudWatch dashboards, alarms, and a troubleshooting runbook for LLM failures. AIP-C01 Module 14.</description></item><item><title>Ship It: Publishing, Model Cards, and Reproducibility (Fine-Tuning in Production, Module 14)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-14/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-14/</guid><description>Publish your fine-tuned model to the Hugging Face Hub: push_to_hub, a model card with base_model lineage, and a base-vs-tuned eval. Module 14.</description></item><item><title>Deploy Forge: LangGraph Platform, the Server API, and Studio (LangGraph in Production, Module 14)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-14/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-14/</guid><description>Deploy a LangGraph agent to production: langgraph.json, langgraph dev, Studio, the SDK (get_client, RemoteGraph), double-texting, and custom auth. Module 14.</description></item><item><title>The NCP-AAI Exam: Strategy, Mock Exam, and My Debrief (NCP-AAI Module 14)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/ncp-aai/module-14/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/ncp-aai/module-14/</guid><description>What the NCP-AAI exam is really like: format, proctoring, strategy, my debrief after passing, and a free 32-question blueprint-weighted mock exam.</description></item><item><title>Observability and Evaluation: Is Quill Any Good? (smolagents, Module 14)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-14/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-14/</guid><description>Trace smolagents with SmolagentsInstrumentor (Langfuse/Phoenix) and score your agent: golden set, LLM-as-judge, TSR, cost/run. Module 14.</description></item><item><title>Capstone: Ship Relay, a Production-Grade GenAI Support Agent (AWS GenAI Developer Pro, Module 15)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-15/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-15/</guid><description>Ship a production GenAI agent on AWS: assemble, harden, and review Relay v1.0 with the Generative AI Lens, then tear it down. AIP-C01 Module 15.</description></item><item><title>Capstone: Anvil, End to End (Fine-Tuning in Production, Module 15)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-15/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/finetune-prod/module-15/</guid><description>Run the whole fine-tuning pipeline end to end on a free T4 — data, SFT, QLoRA, DPO, GRPO, eval, merge, quantize, publish — and ship Anvil v1.0. Module 15.</description></item><item><title>Capstone: Evaluate with LangSmith and Ship Forge v1.0 (LangGraph in Production, Module 15)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-15/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-15/</guid><description>Evaluate a LangGraph agent end-to-end: LangSmith tracing, a 10-issue golden set, openevals judge, agentevals trajectory eval, and a CI regression gate. Ship Forge v1.0.</description></item><item><title>Capstone: Ship Quill, a Production-Grade Code Agent (smolagents, Module 15)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-15/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/smolagents/module-15/</guid><description>Ship a production-grade smolagents agent: run the multi-agent system inside a sandbox (Approach 2), harden it, gate it on evals, and tag v1.0. Module 15.</description></item><item><title>Pass the AIP-C01 Exam: Strategy, Mock Exam, and My Debrief (AWS GenAI Developer Pro, Module 16)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-16/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/aws-genai-pro/module-16/</guid><description>AIP-C01 exam strategy: real format (75 Q/180 min, ordering &amp; matching), a weighted mock exam, and my debrief. AIP-C01 Module 16.</description></item><item><title>Production Readiness and Mastery Review (LangGraph in Production, Module 16)</title><link>https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-16/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://d2apczqz24upf4.cloudfront.net/courses/langgraph-prod/module-16/</guid><description>LangGraph production checklist, 30 mastery questions with explained answers, interview prep, and a real deployment debrief. Module 16 of LangGraph in Production.</description></item></channel></rss>