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| Building Your Own AI Agent
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| With Aza Walker (S/w Enggr, ShipBob). |
| EqualSpace, 550 Broad St, Newark |
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Apr 11 (Sat) , 2026 @ 03:00 PM
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FREE |
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| DETAILS |
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As part of [April's monthly meetup](Building Your Own AI Agent: A Guided Walkthrough), NJ Code & Coffee presents "Building Your Own AI Agent: A Guided Walkthrough".
Join us for a guided walk through of the core principles of AI agents: completions, tools, & the agentic loop.
Whether you're AI-curious or already shipping with LLMs, you'll leave with a solid mental model of how agents actually work under the hood.
We'll use the Anthropic Claude API with the TypeScript SDK as our foundation, building up from a simple completion all the way to a fully autonomous agent.
Bring your laptop if you want to follow along; there'll be one hands-on moment where we build the agent loop together.
All skill levels are welcome.
What You'll Learn:
How LLM completions actually work under the hood
How to give agents tools & let them decide when to use them
The agentic loop - how agents reason, act, & iterate autonomously
How to build a working agent from scratch using the Anthropic TypeScript SDK
Mental models for thinking about agents that you can apply to any framework
What You'll Need To Follow Along:
A laptop with the latest version of Node.js & git installed
An Anthropic API key with a few dollars of credits loaded
Doors open at 2pm, talk starts at 3, arrive early for networking & light refreshments.
Bring your laptop.
Speaker Bio:
Aza Walker is a self-taught software engineer with a fascination for computers & the intricate systems that make them work.
He enjoys designing & building large-scale applications, & currently works at ShipBob as a Senior Software Engineer, where he focuses on developing scalable microservices.
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