Agentic AI for Teaching & Academic Work:
Foundations
Understand what an agent is, how language models work, where they fail, and how to approach prompting as engineering.
Chapters
Chapter 1What an agent is
Separate a chat interaction from a system that can act.
Chapter 2How a language model actually worksBuild a useful mental model of prediction, context, and uncertainty.
Chapter 3The failures you will meetRecognise confident errors, generic answers, and fragile outputs.
Chapter 4Prompting as engineeringTurn prompts into repeatable specifications with constraints and tests.
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