{"product_id":"ai-agents-through-company-zero-9798310773981-new","title":"AI Agents: Through the Company of Zero","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first edition of this book was written when AI agents were mostly a promise. This second edition is written from inside the revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the months since, Anthropic released the Model Context Protocol. Google shipped A2A. Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, CrewAI and LangGraph went from weekend experiments to production infrastructure. Klarna quietly walked back its \"AI replaces humans\" announcement. Air Canada lost a lawsuit because its chatbot invented a refund policy. The EU passed the AI Act. And a small but growing group of founders started running real businesses with almost no employees.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a field guide for the people building in that world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside you will find: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat an AI agent actually is - and what it isn't - in terms you can use tomorrow morning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe protocols (MCP, A2A) that turned isolated demos into a real ecosystem, and why they matter more than any single model\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContext Engineering: the discipline that replaced prompt engineering as the skill that separates working agents from expensive toys\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe design patterns from Anthropic's \"Building Effective Agents\" research, explained with real code and honest tradeoffs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA 30-minute walkthrough to build your first working agent with the Claude Agent SDK\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA frank comparison of today's agent frameworks, including which one to pick for which job\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Company of Zero blueprint: the architecture behind one-person operations that deliver the output of a fifty-person team\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFailure case studies - Air Canada, Klarna, and others - with the lessons most post-mortems miss\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEverything you need to take an agent from prototype to production: observability, evals, cost control, and the team structures that actually work\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA clear-eyed look at ethics, liability, the EU AI Act, and where the human override still belongs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScaling patterns for going from one agent to a thousand without losing your mind or your margin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA 30\/60\/90 day action plan tailored to founders, engineers, managers, and the professionally curious\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a book about what AI agents might do someday. It is a book about what they are doing right now, what it takes to build them well, and what it means for your work, your company, and the shape of the economy you are about to be operating in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you are wondering whether to build, what to build, or how to build it - start here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the author: \u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Locke writes about the intersection of AI, work, and the tools we use to shape both. He has been building with Claude since the first Agent SDK release and runs his own experiments in what he calls the Company of Zero.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":51569477714210,"sku":"9798310773981-new","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/4755\/5618\/files\/9798310773981.jpg?v=1777148545","url":"https:\/\/www.albakireads.com\/products\/ai-agents-through-company-zero-9798310773981-new","provider":"AlbakiReads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}