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Lane Wagner
Instructor
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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Certificate included
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Interactive coding
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Build a toy agentic code editor in Python using the Gemini API
Understand the fundamentals of LLMs and their application in coding tools
Implement function calling in your AI agent to modify and execute Python code
Create a feedback loop for your agent to enhance its bug-fixing capabilities
Develop practical skills in using AI to assist in software development tasks
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 free 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!
Learn how LLMs work and send prompts to the Gemini API using the Python client library
Write the functions your AI agent will need to modify files and run Python code
Give your AI agent the ability to call functions based on its system prompt and context window
Give your tool a proper feedback loop to make it truly "agentic" and fix a real bug
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