12 agentic AI projects that show real engineering skill
Roger_M_Taylor · x · 2026-07-20
A thread listing 12 agentic AI projects that can signal whether someone is ready to be hired.
It starts with core building blocks such as:
- Structured output agents using Pydantic schemas, tool-response validation, retry logic, and failure logging
- RAG agents with citation grounding to reduce hallucinations and surface low-confidence answers
- ReAct planning agents with observe-think-act-reflect loops, iteration caps, and graceful degradation
- Multi-tool orchestrator agents with dynamic tool routing, permission scoping, parallel execution, and conflict resolution
- Memory-enabled conversational agents with short-term buffers and longer-term recall
The post frames these as practical milestones for becoming an agent engineer, not just theory.
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