Build an AI Agent in Python
Build an LLM-powered command-line program capable of reading, updating, and running Python code using the Gemini API. Learn how LLMs and agentic coding tools work.
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Lane Wagner
Lane is a back-end engineer and the lead instructor of Boot.dev. He has taught over one million students worldwide, on Boot.dev, FreeCodeCamp, YouTube and the Backend Banter podcast. Lane worked as a backend engineer writing Go, Python and TypeScript, then moved into engineering management and a couple of years later left to build Boot.dev full-time.
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What will you learn?
Write a toy agentic code editor in Python, similar to Claude Code or Cursor's Agent Mode. Understand how agents work from scratch by using the Google Gemini API to create an LLM-powered code agent. You'll use function calling and feedback loops to build an agent that can find and fix bugs in a real project!
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Great step up from previous projects. Time of the simple guided projects ended here with building first agent, so be prepared and practice those older concepts more that you have learned previously, it WILL make your life easier.
Jere Kukkohovi
Helsinki Metropolitan Area, Finland
this was by far the hardest challenge I've done so far. Being able to code something that has a use case, and I can see how it works was awesome.
peyton Morrow
United States
Really cool and easy to follow course. In later stages you even have to understand some things on your own without 1 to 1 code available, but boots was always there to help.
Marvin
Germany
very useful course! Thanks
Karolina Markowska
poland
The best ai agent course for beginners!
JJ Huang
United States
This was a good project, it was the right ammount of hard and doing it yourself
Abdul Rehman
Pakistan
a really big step up, but worth the time investment, brought alot of concepts together from the previous courses.
Jack Aldus
United Kingdom
While there weren't any functional programming assignments I really enjoyed toying with llms! This project is exceptionally fun and interesting, thank you!
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