Stanford CS329Z 'Engineering AI Agents' course: 12 free lectures from RAG to tool calling
stanfordnlp · x · 2026-11-16
Stanford's 'Engineering AI Agents' (CS329Z) course videos are now freely available on YouTube — 12 lectures covering agentic systems, context engineering, RAG (BM25 to Agentic RAG), function calling & MCP, DSPy vs. LangGraph frameworks, and design patterns like ReAct and CodeAct, taught by Diyi Yang and Michael Ryan. The Lecture 4 tool-calling deep dive is praised as the most in-depth explanation of how LLMs learn to call tools. Each lecture runs 1h17m, ideal for developers self-studying agent engineering.
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