Agents & AI Engineering7 min read
Build an MCP Server and Client for a Ticket-Label Tool
Build a small Python MCP server and client, find a ticket-label tool, and test good calls, rejected inputs and protocol errors.
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Agents & AI Engineering7 min read
Run a Bounded Tool-Calling Loop in Python
Build a Python loop where a model asks for tools and your code decides what runs, with argument checks, hard limits and ten repeatable test cases.
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Agents & AI Engineering8 min read
Use Cursor to Build a Ticket Approval Interface You Can Test
Use Cursor to build a small ticket-review screen, then check that approving, refusing an outdated change and retrying all work in the browser and over HTTP.
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Agents & AI Engineering7 min read
Use GitHub Copilot to Fix a Stale-Delete Bug You Can Verify
Use Copilot in VS Code to fix a small SQLite delete bug. Start from two failing tests, then check the one line of SQL that matters in the patch.
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Agents & AI Engineering9 min read
Build a Webhook Receiver That Verifies and Recovers
Run a small Python webhook receiver on your own machine, check each request's signature, store it safely, and test what happens with duplicates and crashes.
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Agents & AI Engineering7 min read
Three Prompt Contracts You Can Check with Evaluation Fixtures
Write three prompts with a fixed output shape, then check twelve good and bad example answers against them with a small Python script.
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Agents & AI Engineering5 min read
RL Environments for Coding Agents: Five Projects
Five open projects for building practice tasks and scoring for coding agents, what each one covers, and what to check before you trust a score.
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Agents & AI Engineering11 min read
Build a Ticket Workflow with Signed Delivery and Approval
Wire a real HTTP receiver to document lookup and a stored approval, then run twelve local tests of what happens when steps fail or repeat.
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AI Careers12 min read
Agent Engineer: A Practical Career and Portfolio Guide
What agent engineers actually build, why it's harder than it looks, and a portfolio project that shows you can make an agent stop, restart and recover.
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AI Careers12 min read
AI Engineer: A Practical Career and Portfolio Guide
What AI engineers actually build, what to learn first, a portfolio project with eight test cases, and pay posted by real employers.
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AI Careers11 min read
GTM Engineer: A Practical Career and Portfolio Guide
What GTM engineers own, read from real job posts, plus a learning order, posted pay and a portfolio project you can build with fake data.
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Automation Workflows8 min read
Build an n8n Ticket-Triage Workflow and Test Its Failure Paths
Import a credential-free n8n workflow, run eight ticket-triage fixtures, and inspect review, duplicate, invalid-output and stale-record branches.
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