Events / Washington, DC

Build an AI Agent (from Scratch)

Herndon AI Learning Group study session in Fairfax, VA working through the book 'Build an AI Agent (from Scratch),' covering LLM fundamentals, tool use, and a basic ReAct agent.

Tue, Sep 22, 11:00 PMUniversity of North America · Fairfax · VA

Why it matters

A free, code-along study group is a low-pressure way for builders new to agents to learn tool-calling and reasoning loops with others working through the same material.

The tokenmaxxing angle

This session covers implementing a basic ReAct agent and enabling tool use -- the core loop structure that determines how many model calls, and how many tokens, an agent burns per task.

From the organizers

Description specifies the session finishes Chapter 2 ('The Brains of AI Agents: LLMs'), covers Chapter 3 ('Enabling Actions: Tool Use'), and starts Chapter 4 on a basic ReAct agent.