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This totally revised Second Edition of the bestseller by Micheal Lanham guides you through the latest breakthroughs in large language model (LLM)-powered autonomy, from the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to advanced multi-agent collaboration and deployment. [Read more]   All chapters of this MEAP are available now! SAVE HALF! eBook $47.99$23.99 print $59.99$29.99 Be sure to also check out From Prompts to an Agentic System Building Agentic Applications with CrewAI and MCP  Open Source LLMs on Your Own Computer  eBook bestsellers—SAVE HALF! Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)  AI Agents and Applications  Kubernetes in Action, Second Edition  Architecting an Apache Iceberg Lakehouse  Deep Learning with PyTorch, Second Edition  Just Use Postgres!  Domain-Specific Small Language Models  Grokking AI Algorithms, Second Edition  Kafka for Architects  Deep Learning with Python, Third Edition MEAP bestsellers—SAVE HALF! 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