Software Engineer's Guide to AI Agents

Now in its Second Edition (2026), *Software Engineer's Guide to AI Agents* is a practical handbook for moving AI applications from demos to production. Written by Harish Dasari, it guides developers through LLM fundamentals, tool usage with Pydantic and FastAPI, and workflow orchestration via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

The book emphasizes production readiness, covering critical topics like observability, LLM-as-a-Judge evaluation, defense-in-depth security with human-in-the-loop (HITL) patterns, and modern RAG pipelines—equipping you to build, deploy, and scale robust autonomous systems.

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Release date

Audiobook: 11 May 2026