Archive - Designing with AI

MCP For Software Engineers | Part 1 : Building Your First Server

#44 | New to MCP? Heres how to build your first MCP server and a Host Application that integrates and uses the server.

Jul 2, 2025 • Victor Dibia, PhD

Multi-Agent LLM Applications | A Review of Current Research, Tools, and Challenges

Issue # 16 | Autonomous Agents are the next step in the evolution of LLM Apps. What is the state of the art, applications and current limitations?

Dec 19, 2023 • Victor Dibia, PhD

Implementing Claude Code Skills from Scratch

#58 | The pattern behind Claude Code's extensibility - and a working implementation in 100 lines of Python.

Feb 25 • Victor Dibia, PhD

Practical Steps to Reduce Hallucination and Improve Performance of Systems Built with Large Language Models

Issue #11 | How can we make systems that integrate LLM's like ChatGPT more reliable? Here are practical techniques (and research) to mitigate…

Feb 14, 2023 • Victor Dibia, PhD

Getting Started with AutoGen - A Framework for Building Multi-Agent Generative AI Applications

Issue # 17 | Understand key concepts with AutoGen and write your first multi-agent GenAI app!

Feb 5, 2024 • Victor Dibia, PhD

AutoGen vs CrewAI vs LangGraph vs PydanticAI vs Google ADK vs OpenAI Agents .... Which Multi-Agent Framework is Best?

#37 | And the winner is ...

Apr 30, 2025 • Victor Dibia, PhD

How to Use Anthropic MCP Tools with Your AutoGen Agents (and any model)

#32 | What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP) from Anthropic and how can you use it with AutoGen?

Mar 10, 2025 • Victor Dibia, PhD

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10 Ways to Critically Evaluate and Select the Right Multi-Agent Framework

#36 | What makes a multi-agent framework good or useful?

Apr 14, 2025 • Victor Dibia, PhD

You have 'AI Fatigue' - Thats Why You Feel Awful

When Progress Becomes a Sprint: The Human Side of AI's Rapid Advancement

Jan 6, 2025 • Victor Dibia, PhD

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A Friendly Introduction to the AutoGen Framework (v0.4 API)

#29 | An overview of the AutoGen v0.4 API, and how to build your first multi-agent app.

Feb 4, 2025 • Victor Dibia, PhD

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The Google Agents SDK, A2A (Compared with AutoGen)

#35 | A walkthrough on the newly released Google ADK

Apr 10, 2025 • Victor Dibia, PhD

Top Books on AI Agents in 2026

Issue #50 | A list of books I'd recommend to folks interested in understanding and building AI and Agents in 2026

Dec 2, 2025 • Victor Dibia, PhD

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