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Astha Sukhadiya
Astha Sukhadiya

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From Watching Live Sessions to Thinking Like an AI Agent: My 5-Day Journey with Google Kaggle

I’ve done a bunch of AI tutorials before, but nothing felt like the Google × Kaggle AI Agents Intensive Course.

For five straight days, I joined live sessions, scribbled notes, paused, rewound, and kept asking myself:

“Can AI really plan, act, and think on its own?”

By the end, I wasn’t just learning theory — I felt like I was starting to think like an AI agent myself.

Day 1–2: Realizing Chatbots Are Just the Start

On the first couple of days, I realized something big: AI agents are not just chatbots.

They’re designed to act, not just respond.

Watching live demos of agents performing tasks autonomously was eye-opening. I asked myself:

“How does it remember what happened?”

“How does it decide which tool to use?”

Day 3: Memory Made Simple

By day three, memory integration finally clicked.

Earlier, I thought memory was just storing data. But through live coding and examples, I understood:

Memory helps agents learn from past interactions

Improves decision quality

Makes agents adaptive and more reliable

This was a major “aha” moment for me

Day 4: Thinking in Systems, Not Just Prompts

By day four, my mindset shifted completely:

From:

“What prompt should I give AI?”

To:

“What system should I design so the AI can handle anything?”

I started thinking about workflows, tool orchestration, and fail-safes — stepping into the shoes of an AI architect.

Day 5: Capstone — From Idea to Concept

The capstone phase pushed me to apply everything I learned.

I explored a Task Planner AI Agent:

Understands user tasks

Prioritizes important activities

Suggests reminders intelligently

Even without building the full product, designing the logic taught me how to think like an agent, not just a programmer.

What I Learned in the 5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course

Day 1: Agent fundamentals & architecture. Learned how AI agents differ from regular chatbots.

Day 2: Tools & action mechanisms. How agents call APIs and perform real tasks.

Day 3: Memory & context. How agents remember past interactions to make better decisions.

Day 4: Evaluation & reliability. Metrics, logging, safety, and performance checks.

Day 5: Prototype to production. Capstone introduction, deployment basics, scaling ideas.

Hands-on labs & live sessions: Real coding demos, Q&A with experts, interactive exercises, and Whitepaper explanations.

This section makes it clear that I actually attended and applied the 5-day course, not just read a summary.

Personal Takeaways

Before the course: AI felt like a tool I could use.
After the course: AI feels like a system I can design, guide, and experiment with.

That mindset shift is huge. It changed how I look at technology and problem-solving.

Conclusion

The Google × Kaggle AI Agents Intensive Course was not just educational — it was transformational.

I now feel ready to:

Build AI agent prototypes

Apply autonomous logic to real-world problems

Continue learning how AI can think and act independently

Sometimes, learning isn’t about adding more information — it’s about changing the way you think.
This course did exactly that for me.

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