Capstone Agentic AI System
The chapters in this module, in reading order.
| # |
Chapter |
| 00 |
Capstone Project — The Five-Year-Old Version |
| 01 |
Opening Failure — Parts Pass, System Fails |
| 02 |
System Design Blueprint — Start With the User, Not the Model |
| 03 |
Architecture Choices — Single Pipeline vs RAG vs Agent vs Multi-Agent |
| 04 |
Data Pipeline Design — Retrieval, Context Assembly, Freshness, Chunking |
| 05 |
Implementation Strategy — Build Order, Vertical Slices, Iteration Discipline |
| 06 |
Prompt Engineering for the Project — System Prompts, Few-Shot, Chain-of-Thought |
| 07 |
Evaluation Design — End-to-End Evals, Not Just Component Checks |
| 08 |
Monitoring and Observability — Traces, Dashboards, Alerting on Quality Drift |
| 09 |
Cost and Latency Management — Token Budgets, Caching, Model Routing |
| 10 |
Deployment Strategy — Staging, Canary, Rollback, CI/CD for AI Systems |
| 11 |
Presentation and Portfolio — Demo, Writeup, What Interviewers Actually Want |
| 12 |
Integration Debugging — When the Whole System Breaks |
| 13 |
Honest Admission — What We Do Not Fully Understand About Building AI Systems |