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The Agentic AI book: From Language Models to Intelligent Agents
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 10 2026
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.46 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
The barrier to building autonomous AI systems has completely collapsed, but the chasm in true engineering understanding has never been deeper. Systems that impress in demos barely survive day one in production.
The Agentic AI Book is the definitive engineering guide for practitioners who want to move past fragile prompt-and-pray scripts, understand exactly why agents work and fail, and architect autonomous systems that hold up under real-world production conditions. This book takes you from language model foundations to production-ready multi-agent systems, with enough depth to predict failure modes before they surface, design systems that degrade gracefully not catastrophically, and diagnose exactly what broke and why, when they do.
Printed in full color - 216 pages, 105 custom diagrams, 162 annotated callout boxes, and a companion code repository (14 industry mini-project labs) included.
Inside the Book
- Build intuition that decodes any model - past, present, or future. Trace the complete problem-solving arc from bag-of-words to self-attention, understanding why each breakthrough was necessary and what it fixed. Master the Three-Layer Framework as a universal evaluation lens, and understand scaling laws deeply enough to explain why a properly overtrained smaller model can outperform a frontier giant.
- Diagnose the failures that surface-level AI education never names. Move past the model hallucinated to isolate specific, actionable failure modes: the Reversal Curse, Flat Latency, and Underspecification in language systems; the Modality Gap and Perception-Reasoning Dissociation in multimodal ones. Coverage extends to the full VLM stack.
- Adapt models when prompting reaches its limits. Master RAG architectures, the RAG Triad, LoRA and QLoRA, and the alignment frontier - including DPO and GRPO, powering today's leading reasoning models.
- Defeat context rot and design bulletproof tools. Navigate the Six Levels of Agentic Autonomy, apply Poka-Yoke principles to the Agent-Computer Interface, and build three-tier memory systems with Just-In-Time context loading and attention budget management.
- Orchestrate multi-agent systems without paying the complexity tax. Use DAG-based task graphs and the Agent-to-Agent Interface, know when not to scale, and prevent deadlocks and runaway costs with conflict-resolution protocols and semantic compression.
- Take absolute engineering ownership of production deployment. Replace hope with reliability engineering. Implement evaluation frameworks, build observability stacks, enforce guardrail architectures, debug agentic race conditions, and deploy with quantization and speculative sampling. Design kill switch protocols before you need them.
Who This Book Is For
This book is for serious practitioners who aren't strangers to code or ML fundamentals. If you occupy an ML-adjacent role, software engineer, data scientist, or technical leader, or you already have a foundational understanding of ML and want to bridge the gap to mastering LLMs and autonomous agents, this book was written for you. Not to impress you. To equip you.
Why This Book
Most material on Generative/Agentic AI falls into one of three traps: surface-level infotainment engineered for quick consumption, technically fragmented and disconnected from first principles, or written for readers who already hold a PhD. This book is none of those things. It is a rigorous, framework-agnostic Design-to-Deployment lifecycle built by an author who has spent two decades watching production systems fail in ways that demos never predict.
Context engineering, memory tiering, reasoning-action loops, dynamic task decomposition, multi-agent orchestration: these are not hype. They are the physics of this field. Everything else is the weather.
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