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Automation and agents

Learn when to automate work with AI, where agents help, and where plain workflows are safer.

Best for
Founders, operations teams, developers
Level
Intermediate
Time
8-14 hours
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Choose this when

You have repetitive operational work that crosses email, docs, spreadsheets, CRMs, support, or internal tools.

You should be able to

You can map a workflow into triggers, tools, approvals, logs, and fallback paths.

Checkpoint

Move on when you can describe how the workflow fails and what happens next.

Do

Learning sequence

Work through the material inside each step. Videos are embedded where they fit; tutorials and references sit next to the task they support.

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Step 1

Map the workflow

Write the trigger, inputs, decision points, tools, and human approval moments before choosing software.

  • Triggers
  • Inputs
  • Approvals

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Learn to build effective Agentic AI systems

DeepLearning.AI

Start here before wiring tools into multi-step workflows.

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Step 2

Add tools carefully

Connect one low-risk tool and log every action so failures are visible.

  • Tool calls
  • Permissions
  • Audit trail

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OpenAI Agents SDK

Guide · OpenAI · Intermediate

You are moving past one-off calls and need application-owned orchestration, tools, approvals, and state.

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Step 3

Harden the workflow

Add review queues, retries, and explicit stop conditions before trusting it with users.

  • Failure modes
  • Retries
  • Escalation

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Practice task

Automate one internal task where the AI drafts or classifies, but a human approves the final action.

Reference

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Step 2

OpenAI Agents SDK

Guide · OpenAI · Intermediate

You are moving past one-off calls and need application-owned orchestration, tools, approvals, and state.

Step 3

Hugging Face Agents Course

Free course · Hugging Face · Beginner to intermediate

You want a hands-on agent course that uses open-source tools.

Step 3

LangGraph Academy

Free course · LangChain · Intermediate

You want to build multi-step agent workflows with state.

Educators to follow

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Craig Hewitt

Beginner to intermediate

Start with Craig's site and the 100 Days of AI videos on YouTube, then copy one workflow into your own business before looking for more tools.

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Swyx

Intermediate to advanced

Watch AI Engineer talks for production patterns and tool choices.

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Josh Pigford

Beginner to intermediate

Read the public notes and examples before deciding whether the paid material matches your business.

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