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30 Agents Every AI Engineer Must Build
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30 Agents Every AI Engineer Must Build

by Imran Ahmad
March 2026
Intermediate to advanced
542 pages
17h 44m
English
Packt Publishing
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Healthcare and Scientific Agents

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

– Florence Nightingale, Notes on Hospitals (1863)

Healthcare and scientific research share one defining trait that sets them apart from every other agent domain: mistakes here cost lives. A diagnostic agent that calls a malignant tumor benign. A research agent that misses a lethal drug interaction buried in the literature. These are not inconveniences. They are catastrophes. That reality forces a specific set of architectural priorities: verifiability first, explainability second, graceful degradation always, and raw speed only when the first three are satisfied.

Both domains also face an information overload problem that no human ...

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