About

Agentic Engineering 101 is a free curriculum on building AI agents from first principles, written by AI Blast Off.

Who it is for

Developers who can already write code and have made at least one agent work. It is written for the point just after the tutorial ends — when the thing runs, you cannot fully explain why, and the failures have started getting strange.

The rules this is written under

• Human-written. Every page is written by a person, from systems actually built and actually broken. No generated filler.
• Dated. Every page carries the date it was last updated, so you can judge how stale it is.
• Honest about gaps. Unwritten pages say so plainly and list what they will cover. They are never disguised as finished.
• Prompts, not padding. Where a model explains something better than prose can, the page hands you the prompt instead of padding itself out.

Why it exists

Most agent material is either framework documentation or a demo that falls apart the moment the task gets real. The gap is the middle: the loop itself, what context does, why tools get picked wrong, and how you know any of it works. That gap is what this covers.

Elsewhere

Client work and consulting live at aiblastoff.io.