5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course with Google
Artificial Intelligence is evolving from systems that simply generate text to ones that can reason, plan, act, and learn. This shift marks the rise of AI agents — intelligent, goal-oriented systems that bridge the gap between models and autonomous behavior. Google’s 5-Day AI Agents Intensive, hosted on Kaggle, captured this transformation in a hands-on, engineering-focused program that went far beyond traditional AI courses. Over the course of five days, the workshop unpacked the full lifecycle of agentic systems — from foundational reasoning loops and tool integration to long-term memory, evaluation, and large-scale deployment. Powered by Gemini and the Agent Development Kit (ADK), it showed how to design, observe, and productionize AI agents that don’t just respond but actually think and act. What made this program exceptional was its focus on real-world implementation. Participants explored topics like the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for interoperability, AgentOps for observability and reliability, and Vertex AI Agent Engine for production deployment. Each concept was tied to code labs, whitepapers, and evaluation exercises that mirrored Google’s own internal frameworks. This article is a summary of my journey through the course — what I built, what I learned, and how it reshaped my understanding of building trustworthy, scalable AI systems. Click here for detailed post.