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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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Information Retrieval and Knowledge Agents

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

– Mark Twain

In a world where information is doubling at a staggering pace, the ability to locate reliable, current, and contextually relevant knowledge is now a decisive factor for innovation, decision-making, and competitive advantage. LLMs have revolutionized how we understand and generate natural language, yet their power is limited by a static training snapshot and the risk of producing unverifiable or outdated answers. Knowledge agents close this gap by blending intelligent reasoning with live, authoritative data sources—transforming LLMs from static archives into dynamic, ...

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ISBN: 9781806109012