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Agentic AI Explained: how AI agents actually work

What separates an AI agent from ChatGPT? Why agentic AI is spreading through every industry, and what a total beginner needs to know first. Two hours, no code, and no assumption that you have ever opened a terminal.

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The course exists for one moment: the meeting where somebody is selling you an agent and you need to know which of three things it is.

What the course covers

two hours, no code

The three shapes

An answer, a workflow, an agent. Which one your work actually needs, what each costs to build and run, and why most jobs described to me as agents are workflows.

What you get: the sentence that ends the circular meeting

How to read a pitch

What to ask, what a real answer sounds like, where the price should land, and how to tell the person who builds this properly from the person selling the word.

What you get: 4 questions and the reversibility rule

The checking habit

How to read what it says it did rather than what it handed you, so a confident wrong answer never reaches your client.

What you get: a 20 second habit that catches the quiet failures

What it costs

Real numbers rather than a demo's, how the meter actually works, and how to find your own figure in one afternoon instead of guessing for a month.

What you get: your number, not somebody else's

Proposing it inside your own company

How to put this to your boss or your team without sounding like the person who came back from a seminar. The small first job, and how to show it worked.

What you get: a proposal somebody will say yes to

While you wait

all three are available now
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Two honest routes while this one is being made, and neither of them needs you to wait.
Do not wait for me

You can start on any of these today, and 2 of the 3 cost nothing.

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Claude Code 101Anthropic's own course. It costs nothing and the people who built the thing wrote it. Nothing installed to a first working job.

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The Agentic AI seriesEvery post here runs a real job on a real machine first. What an agent is, what it costs, how to read a pitch.

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The Claude Code courseFor the person who would rather do than read. Nothing installed to a finished project you keep.

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The difference

The Claude Code course teaches you to build. This one teaches you to judge: which of the three shapes your job needs, what a real pitch sounds like, and what to do first.

Questions people ask next

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Do I need any coding experience?

None. The course assumes you have never opened a terminal, and the first thing you do is watch a job run rather than build one.

Who is this course for?

The person who has to live with agentic AI rather than build it. Somebody is selling you one, or your company has told you to start using one, or you are the person everybody asks what the word means.

How long is it?

About 2 hours, in short lectures you can stop after any one of them.

When does it open?

It is not out yet. Join the list on this page and you get 1 email from me, on the day it opens.