Entries by Kia

Generative AI vs. Agentic AI: Understanding the Key Differences and Real-World Applications

Generative AI and agentic AI represent two different approaches to artificial intelligence, even though they often rely on the same underlying technologies. Most people are already familiar with generative AI through tools like ChatGPT, image generators, code assistants, and music creation platforms. These systems are fundamentally reactive. They wait for a user to provide a […]

How to Build Your First AI Agent on Mac with Google ADK

Build Your First AI Agent on Mac (Safe Setup) 1. Create your project folder(Do this in Terminal) This creates a new folder where your AI project will live. 2. Move into your project folder(Terminal) This enters your new project directory. Think of this as entering your workshop. 3. Create a virtual environment(Terminal) This creates an […]

From Prompt Engineer to Agent Engineer: 7 Essential Skills for Building Real AI Systems

Last week I came across a job posting that honestly made me laugh. The title was “Prompt Engineer,” but the skills they wanted included distributed systems, API design, machine learning operations, security engineering, and product management. Reading it, I thought: this isn’t one job — it’s five different jobs wearing one fashionable title. But the […]

The Role of Skills in AI Agents

AI agent skills have quickly become one of the most important open standards in modern AI systems, especially across coding platforms. The reason is simple: they solve a major weakness in AI agents. Large language models are already very good at reasoning and they know a huge amount of factual information. They can explain complex […]

Agentic AI, AI Agents, Modern AI.

Frontier AI agents have become surprisingly capable. They can plan tasks, write code, and solve problems with very little human involvement. But this ability does not come from the language model alone. Under the surface, there are several important layers and systems that turn a simple conversational model into a true autonomous agent. To understand […]

MongoDB Schema Design Best Practices

MongoDB’s aggregation framework provides many stages to query, process, and transform data. While you can use and combine stages as you like, there are several common pipelines you can use as blueprints to accomplish common tasks. In this guide, we’ll walk you through one common aggregation pipeline sequence using the match, group, and project stages. […]