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title: "AI Engineer Notebooks – free, framework-free RAG/agents/evals on Colab"
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published_at: "2026-08-27T21:46:39.000Z"
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summary: "Hands-on, framework-free Colab notebooks for the AI Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) skill set — model APIs, structured output, tool calling, RAG, evals-as-the-spine, agents (loop from sc..."
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# AI Engineer Notebooks – free, framework\-free RAG/agents/evals on Colab

> [Open the canonical story](<https://aidr.today/b34ca6df?lang=en>)

**Published:** 2026-08-27T21:46:39.000Z
**Category:** Research
**Topics:** rag, agent, coding

## Summary

Hands\-on, framework\-free Colab notebooks for the AI Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer \(FDE\) skill set — model APIs, structured output, tool calling, RAG, evals\-as\-the\-spine, agents \(loop from sc\.\.\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://github.com/calmrocks/ai-engineer-notebooks>)
- [Discussion](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49471714>)