21 Agentic AI Patterns You Already Know
The free cheat sheet that maps every agentic AI design pattern to a software engineering concept you've used for years. Prompt Chaining is Pipe & Filter. Reflection is TDD. Multi-Agent is Microservices. Download the complete reference.
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What's Inside the Cheat Sheet
Designed as a desk reference for architecture reviews, team onboarding, and design docs.
The Pattern Bridge
All 21 agentic AI patterns mapped side-by-side to their classical SWE equivalents. The Rosetta Stone for AI architecture.
Decision Framework
A visual flowchart: single-pass LLM, deterministic workflow, or multi-agent orchestration? Know which pattern to reach for.
Anti-Patterns & Trade-Offs
Agent Soup, Memory Hoarding, Reflection Loops — the mistakes that kill production agents, and how to avoid them.
Production Guardrails
Bounded autonomy, state control, failure recovery, and cost optimization checklists for real-world deployments.
Pattern Mapping Preview: AI Meets Classical Engineering
Every agentic pattern has a SWE ancestor. Here's the complete bridge.
Why Senior Engineers Love This Reference
Learn 10x Faster
Skip the hype cycle. Map new concepts to patterns you've shipped in production for years. Agentic AI becomes an extension of your existing toolkit.
Architecture-Ready
Walk into design reviews speaking fluently about agentic systems using engineering vocabulary your team already understands.
Pin It, Reference It
Designed as a desk reference — print it, pin it to your monitor, share it in Slack. Every page works as a standalone shareable image.
All 21 Agentic Patterns at a Glance
Each pattern has a dedicated deep-dive page with code examples, SWE mappings, and production notes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Agentic AI design patterns are reusable architectural blueprints for building AI systems that can perceive, reason, plan, and act autonomously. They include patterns like Prompt Chaining (sequential LLM calls), Reflection (self-correction loops), Tool Use (function calling), Planning (dynamic task decomposition), and Multi-Agent Collaboration (specialized agent teams). Each maps directly to classical software engineering patterns.
Senior software engineers, architects, engineering managers, and technical leaders who already understand distributed systems, design patterns, and production software — and want to translate that expertise into agentic AI fluency. This is not a beginner's introduction to AI.
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Andrew Ng identified 4 core agentic patterns in his landmark course. Our cheat sheet covers all 21 patterns from Antonio Gullí's comprehensive framework and uniquely maps each one to a classical software engineering equivalent — something no other resource does.
Absolutely — that's the point. The PDF is designed to be pinned to your wall during architecture reviews, shared in Slack channels, and referenced in design docs. Every page works as a standalone shareable image.
Yes. The agentic AI space evolves rapidly. We continuously update the curriculum and cheat sheet as new patterns emerge and existing ones mature. Sign up for the free newsletter to get updates.
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21 agentic AI patterns. 21 classical SWE mappings. Architecture diagrams, decision frameworks, and anti-patterns. All in one free PDF.
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