Slides
The deck from the live session. It’s a self-contained web page — no build step, works offline, and prints to PDF.
Opens in a new tab so you don’t lose your place here.
Driving the deck
Section titled “Driving the deck”| Key | |
|---|---|
| → ← space | navigate |
| a | jump to the agenda from anywhere |
| n | speaker notes — every slide has them |
| o | slide overview / jump to any slide |
| t | session timer, with an on-pace target |
| f | fullscreen |
| p | print → save as PDF |
| Home End | first / last slide |
| ? | key list |
There are also on-screen controls bottom-right — previous, next, agenda, overview, notes. They stay faint until you move the mouse. On a phone, swipe left and right.
What’s in it
Section titled “What’s in it”| Slides | Block | Read alongside |
|---|---|---|
| 1–6 | Intro, about me, agenda, what we’re building | Anatomy of an agent · Architecture |
| 7–14 | The wall — generative vs agentic, the Timeout Trap | From chatbot to agent · Why deployment is hard |
| 15–22 | The pattern — accept and poll, secrets | Why deployment is hard |
| 23–30 | Memory, state, guardrails | Memory and RAG · Guardrails |
| 31–33 | Live deploy — two tracks, then the agent on Render | Build step 8 · Render |
| 34–35 | The agent on FastAPI Cloud, the client on Vercel | FastAPI Cloud · Deploy the client |
| 36–39 | What goes wrong, wrap-up and checklist | Troubleshooting |
39 slides, about 90 minutes with demos. Slides 34–35 are the optional pair — cut them first if you’re running long, since the deployment lesson has already landed by then.
These numbers match the counter in the corner of the deck.
Slides vs this site
Section titled “Slides vs this site”They’re deliberately different, not two copies of the same thing.
The slides are built for a room: big type, one idea per slide, a live demo in the middle. They assume someone is talking over them.
This site is built for you alone, weeks later: full explanations, working code, copy-pasteable commands, and the troubleshooting that a live session never has time for.
If you attended and want the reference, you want Learn. If you want to rebuild it, you want Build. The deck is best as a quick visual reminder of the shape of the argument.
Offline copy
Section titled “Offline copy”Open the deck and press p to print it to PDF. Worth doing before you rely on it — the deck also serves as the backup when a projector, a network, or a laptop misbehaves.