Module 2 of 3

Navigating the Current Moment

Balancing strategic urgency with technical skepticism.

Something fundamental changed in 2024 that moved agents from theory to practice. This module provides the technical context for that shift while providing techniques to ground your decisions in a realistic view of the production gap.

An Introduction to AI Agents

~80 mins
4 lessons
foundation

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What you'll learn

Distil the technical shifts — reasoning models, tool-use stability, and latency drops — that made agents viable in 2024.
Explain why operational capability and not just model access is a differentiating competitive asset.
Apply a structured sceptic's framework to stress-test agentic claims and anticipate predictable failure modes before they appear in production.

Lessons in the Module

1 What Changed 25–30 mins

2 The Case for Urgency 25–30 mins

3 The Case for Scepticism 20–25 mins

4 Where This Is Heading 15–20 mins

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