Pragmatic AI Labs

Agentic AI: Actor Models and Subagent Architecture

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Pragmatic AI Labs

Agentic AI: Actor Models and Subagent Architecture

Alfredo Deza
Noah Gift

Instructors: Alfredo Deza

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4 hours to complete
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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Beginner level

Recommended experience

4 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Apply the actor paradigm for concurrent AI systems using message-passing isolation, Actix supervision trees in Rust

  • Design subagent architectures with Claude for task delegation, pmat for code quality analysis, and supervised multi-agent coordination

  • Implement actor patterns in Deno, Go, and Rust with language-specific concurrency primitives including goroutines and channels

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April 2026

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4 assignments

Taught in English

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There are 4 modules in this course

Covers agentic, actor, architecture, paradigm, and message.

What's included

4 videos6 readings1 assignment

Covers Claude subagent delegation, pmat subagent pipelines, Clippy integration, Amdahl's Law for parallel agents, and small language model evaluation.

What's included

7 videos4 readings1 assignment

Covers actor implementations in Deno (async/await), Go (goroutines and channels), and Rust (Actix), plus the Go supervisor pattern with crash recovery.

What's included

5 videos4 readings1 assignment

Build a multi-language agentic AI system grounded in actor model principles, implementing supervision trees for fault tolerance, subagent delegation for task decomposition, and Claude-powered reasoning agents. The system demonstrates actor patterns in Rust, Go, and Deno, applies Amdahl's Law to optimize parallel subagent execution, and evaluates when simple agents outperform complex multi-agent designs.

What's included

1 reading1 assignment

Instructors

Alfredo Deza
Pragmatic AI Labs
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