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Vanderbilt University

AI Agent Developer Specialization

Master Skills of an AI Agent Software Developer.

Learn to design, build, and refine intelligent software agents using Python, generative AI, and agentic architectures for real-world applications.

Dr. Jules White

Instructor: Dr. Jules White

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Beginner level

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2 months to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • • How to build and deploy intelligent AI agents using Python, tools, memory, and reasoning.

  • • How to create custom GPTs and apply prompt engineering techniques for real-world tasks.

  • • How to design trustworthy, responsible AI systems aligned with best practices.

Skills you'll gain

  • Category: AI literacy
  • Category: AI Personalization
  • Category: AI powered creativity
  • Category: Expense Management
  • Category: Generative AI Agents
  • Category: Ideation
  • Category: LLM Application
  • Category: Multimodal Prompts
  • Category: Prompt Patterns
  • Category: Retrieval-Augmented Generation
  • Category: Software Development
  • Category: Verification And Validation

Tools you'll learn

  • Category: Agentic Workflows
  • Category: AI Orchestration
  • Category: AI Workflows
  • Category: ChatGPT
  • Category: Generative AI
  • Category: OpenAI
  • Category: OpenAI API
  • Category: Prompt Engineering

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Specialization - 6 course series

AI Agents and Agentic AI with Python & Generative AI

AI Agents and Agentic AI with Python & Generative AI

Course 1, 11 hours

What you'll learn

  • Build a complete AI agent framework in Python, creating each component yourself to gain deep understanding of how agents work

  • Design tool discovery systems and function calling mechanisms that allow your agents to interact with external systems and perform meaningful actions

  • Create practical, production-ready agents for tasks like intelligent file exploration, documentation generation, and coding

Skills you'll gain

Category: Memory Management
Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: AI Workflows
Category: File I/O
Category: Software Documentation
Category: Generative AI Agents
Category: Tool Calling
Category: Agentic systems
Category: LLM Application
Category: Agentic Workflows
Category: File Management
Category: Large Language Modeling
Category: OpenAI
Category: Application Development
AI Agents and Agentic AI Architecture in Python

AI Agents and Agentic AI Architecture in Python

Course 2, 7 hours

What you'll learn

  • How to implement agents that can dynamically adopt different expert personas and reason with or transform unstructured data

  • Techniques for building Multi-Agent Collaboration Systems in Python that support sophisticated memory sharing and intelligent coordination

  • How to implement Trustworthy and Safe Agent Architectures in Python using staged execution, reversible actions, and safety patterns

Skills you'll gain

Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: Persona Development
Category: AI Orchestration
Category: LLM Application
Category: OpenAI API
Category: AI Workflows
Category: Memory Management
Category: Business Logic
Category: Generative AI Agents
Category: Agentic Workflows
Category: Prompt Patterns
Category: Transaction Processing
Category: Application Programming Interface (API)
Category: AI Security
Category: File I/O
Category: Agentic systems
OpenAI GPTs: Creating Your Own Custom AI Assistants

OpenAI GPTs: Creating Your Own Custom AI Assistants

Course 3, 7 hours

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Human Centered Design
Category: Development Testing
Category: AI Personalization
Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: Prompt Patterns
Category: Test Case
Category: System Testing
Category: Interaction Design
Category: Tool Calling
Category: OpenAI API
Category: Expense Reports
Category: Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Category: OpenAI
Category: Responsible AI
Category: Human Computer Interaction
Category: ChatGPT
Category: Travel Arrangements
Category: Expense Management
Category: Generative AI Agents
Category: Generative AI
Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT

Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT

Course 4, 19 hours

What you'll learn

  • How to apply prompt engineering to effectively work with large language models, like ChatGPT

  • How to use prompt patterns to tap into powerful capabilities within large language models

  • How to create complex prompt-based applications for your life, business, or education

Skills you'll gain

Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: Prompt Patterns
Category: AI Enablement
Category: AI powered creativity
Category: ChatGPT
Category: LLM Application
Category: AI literacy
Category: Large Language Modeling
Category: Artificial Intelligence
ChatGPT Advanced Data Analysis

ChatGPT Advanced Data Analysis

Course 5, 11 hours

What you'll learn

  • Automate tasks in your work and life with ChatGPT Code Interpreter

    Automate reading and creating PDFs, PowerPoint, Excel, images, video, and more

Skills you'll gain

Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Automation
Category: File Management
Category: Prompt Patterns
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Data Transformation
Category: File I/O
Category: Marketing Automation
Category: Plot (Graphics)
Category: AI Workflows
Category: Statistical Visualization
Category: Multimodal Prompts
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Business Process Automation
Category: Generative AI
Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: Data Presentation
Category: Text Mining
Category: ChatGPT
Category: Document Management
Trustworthy Generative AI

Trustworthy Generative AI

Course 6, 9 hours

What you'll learn

  • What problems actually make sense to solve with Generative AI

  • How to frame problems and prompt engineer to produce more trustworthy results from Generative AI

Skills you'll gain

Category: Generative AI
Category: Risking
Category: AI powered creativity
Category: AI literacy
Category: Ideation
Category: Verification And Validation
Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: ChatGPT
Category: Responsible AI
Category: Prompt Patterns

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Dr. Jules White

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