How to Build Autonomous AI Agents: The Skill That’ll 10x Your Career

Agents are no longer demo toys. They can now reliably plan, execute, reflect, and adapt without detailed instructions. A step-by-step recording of a lighting lesson. 2,700+ attendees.

Yesterday, a PM asked me about the #1 AI skill to learn in 2026.

My answer: building production-ready AI agents.

But most PMs are still stuck at the “prompt engineering” layer. They’re chaining instructions and tweaking wording.

The real leverage comes from understanding how to build agentic systems that can reliably reason, plan, retrieve context, take actions, and even operate without step-by-step instructions.

Here’s why:

1. The the true autonomy has just become possible (GPT-5/GPT-5.1).

2. Building agents forces you to understand reasoning loops, tool orchestration, context engineering, and the real patterns and constraints that separate demos from agents in production.

3. It makes you 10x more productive because instead of doing tasks, you start designing systems that do them for you.

4. It also makes you a far better PM because you stop thinking in “features” and start thinking in “autonomous systems” — which is exactly where every AI-native product is going.

On Friday (11/21/2025), I’m hosting a free live session with Product Faculty where I’ll walk you through how to build an autonomous AI agent from scratch.

[Edited] I shared the recording in this post.

You’ll learn:

• The architecture behind modern AI agents.

• How to turn a workflow into a fully autonomous agent.

• How PMs can design agent behaviors without coding.

• The biggest mistakes PMs and engineers make when building agents.

• A live walkthrough of building a working agent from zero.

If you want to learn the skill that will define the next decade of product roles, this is the place to start (sign up for $0):

See you tomorrow!

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After the event

2,700+ people have signed up, including 2,000+ 48 hours just before the event. Our session jumped to the #1 position on Maven 🤯

Thank you all. That was a crazy event! 🙏

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Side note

Before we go further, I also recommend the AI PM Certification Course with Miqdad Jaffer (Product Lead at OpenAI) and me (Paweł Huryn) — I help Miqdad as an AI Build Labs Leader.

$500 off: https://bit.ly/aipmcohort

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Session Recording & Additional Resources

🔒Extra materials include:

• Autonomous System Prompt

• n8n Workflow Definition (.json)

• Key Aspects Discussed During The Session

• Top Unanswered Questions from Slido

Get them below 👇