How does a senior engineer learn AI agents in depth? Build one end to end, not five courses
A senior engineering manager with 20 years in distributed systems asks how to skill up in GenAI and agentic AI. The useful answer is that the old background transfers directly: agents fail like distributed systems do, with duplicate retries, half-timed-out tools, and drifting state, so one real end-to-end build with tool use, memory, and regression evals teaches more than sampling many intro courses.