Build an AI Agent From Scratch in Python - Tutorial for Beginners

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In this video, you'll learn how to build an AI agent from scratch in Python. I'll walk you through everything step-by-step. This will be very beginner friendly, and you'll learn how to make something quite interesting in Python with some popular frameworks like LangChain. I'll show you how to use various LLMs like Claude or GPT, how you can give the agent access to various tools, and how you can structure the output of the agent so you can use it in your code.

🎞 Video Resources 🎞
Code in this video: https://github.com/techwithtim/PythonAIAgentFromScratch
Learn Python Virtual Environments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y21OR1OPC9A
Get Your Anthropic API Key: https://console.anthropic.com/settings/keys
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⏳ Timestamps ⏳
00:00 | Overview
00:35 | Agent Demo
01:38 | Setup/Requirements
06:53 | Basic Code Setup/Imports
08:37 | Using Claude or GPT
10:00 | Getting Your API Key
11:32 | Basic LLM Functionality
12:43 | Structured Output/Models
15:42 | Prompt Templates
17:33 | Creating & Running the Agent
21:00 | Output Parsing
23:39 | Adding Prebuilt Tools
30:48 | Custom Tool Calling

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