AI Agents vs Pipelines Explained
Understand the difference between AI agents and AI pipelines, when to choose each, and how to design systems that combine both for reliability and flexibility.
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Understand the difference between AI agents and AI pipelines, when to choose each, and how to design systems that combine both for reliability and flexibility.
How function calling really works under the hood, the schema design that survives contact with users, and the failure modes to plan for.
How to design tool schemas that LLMs actually call correctly, with naming, description, and parameter patterns that survive real users and adversarial inputs.
Understand how tool calling lets LLMs invoke functions, why agents loop over tools, and how to design reliable tool schemas.
Learn the ReAct pattern, a prompting technique that combines reasoning and action to build effective tool-using LLM agents.
How to write prompts and tool definitions that make function calling reliable. Covers schemas, descriptions, examples, error handling, and patterns for multi-tool agents.
Practical patterns for building AI agents that use tools well: tool definitions, loops, planning, parallel calls, error handling, and how to keep agents from going off the rails.