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Few-Shot Academy

Learn to build AI agents. Find your career path.

Start with the basics, build something you can use, and see how those skills fit the role you want. No AI or coding background needed to begin.

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What you’ll build

Watch an agent at work​

From a question to a tool call to an answer. Build it, then see what happens inside.

Fernwood Assistant. Question: What's 15% of 340, and what's Fernwood's bestselling drink?

Tools used: calculator, search_documents. Answer: 15% of 340 is 51. Fernwood Coffee Co.'s bestselling drink is the "Depot Latte."

Replay of recorded lab output, with illustrative timing. Fernwood is a fictional training example. Run with Ollama.

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Build your skills

A path from basics to working agents​

Follow these three tracks in order. Each ends with a project you can run.

Step 1

Foundations

Start from zero. Learn prompting, embeddings, and how to build a Q&A bot over your notes.

Step 2

Intermediate

Improve retrieval, add tools and memory, then build a multi-tool agent.

Step 3

Advanced

Add guardrails, tracing, and evaluation. Package and ship your agent.

Explore a subject in depth

Standalone tracks with their own learning sequence and setup guidance.

MCP

Connect agents to tools. Build, deploy, and secure your own MCP servers.

Vector Databases

Understand similarity, indexes, hybrid search, and reranking through working labs.

Advanced Concepts
Practical patterns and references for specific problems.

Find your direction

Which role fits you?​

See what the work involves, what to study, and how to prepare for interviews.

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