
The lecture defines DeFi as a no-code platform for production-ready llm apps, focusing on prompts, knowledge bases, tools, and component orchestrations to build autonomous agents, chatbots, and text generators.
Discover that DeFi is 100% model agnostic with native support for all large language models. Explore no-code interfaces, rag and knowledge management, open source licensing, and publishing and monitoring tools.
Master the DeFi platform to build production-ready no-code LLM and AI agents and workflows by integrating prompts, tools, knowledge, publishing, and API access across end-to-end apps.
Henry Habib, a data and automation consultant, teaches this course on AI, no-code automation, and gen AI to boost productivity. He leads live and online trainings and invites feedback.
Practice along with the instructor by mimicking on your screen and exploring beyond the basics in ai agents with dify. Engage by asking questions in the qa community.
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Delve into generative AI for agents, covering artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, neural networks, and llms, while noting transformers, content generation, and the need for human oversight.
Understand what large language models (llms) are—deep learning systems that generate text by predicting the next word—and their limits, like outdated knowledge, and how Reg and agents address them.
Explore rag (retrieval augmented generation) and tooling for application programming interfaces to empower llms to fetch private data, search and retrieve relevant contracts, and execute actions via application programming interfaces.
Discover the difference between agents and workflows in no-code AI automation, highlighting determinism versus latitude, goals, tools, and knowledge bases that guide action.
Choose the cloud version with a free sandbox to set up your DeFi workspace, or self-host on AWS, Azure, or on-prem, then create a free account and begin.
Explore the Dify studio environment, discover five application types, and learn how to edit agents, chat flows, and workflows with knowledge bases and tools, plus tracing, monitoring, and publishing options.
Build a no-code text generator app with Dify by defining a prefix prompt and company description variable, generating slogans, testing prompts, adjusting model and temperature, then publish via API.
Build a no-code chatbot that remembers conversation context and handles back-and-forth dialogue, guided by instructions, variables, and tone settings for engaging responses.
Create your first AI agent in Dify by adding tools like Wikipedia and Yahoo Finance, enabling autonomous research and actions beyond chat, turning a chatbot into a capable agent.
Design a no-code ai workflow by wiring a trigger to LLM blocks and inputs to generate a tagline. Explore the visual workflow interface, block chaining, and publishing for app integration.
Build a chat flow, a deterministic chatbot that controls its steps before replying, integrating tools, memory, and translating to French or performing Wikipedia lookups for no-code AI agents with Dify.
Select the right model for each task in a model-agnostic platform, balancing cost, latency, and context length, and switch between providers like bedrock, OpenAI, Azure AI Studio, Gemini, and anthropic.
Compare multiple models side by side to choose the right model for a task, evaluating outputs and latency and refining prompts to improve results.
Tune model parameters such as temperature and max tokens to control output creativity and length, recognizing deterministic behavior at low temperatures and more varied results at higher temperatures.
Explore how to control model outputs with the text output parameter, switching between text and JSON formats, and enforce a JSON object schema for structured results in no-code AI agents.
Select and compare models for external apps, tailoring each workflow step with suitable LMs while balancing cost, context windows, and multimodal capabilities.
Explore how tools empower llms to take actions—calling APIs, sending emails, and performing searches—using a growing marketplace of tools and the option to build custom, no-code ai agents.
Learn how tools and actions require explicit parameters in workflows, and how no-code AI agents with Dify automatically infer parameters for tasks like Wikipedia search and Ford and Honda comparisons.
Discover multi-tool integration for no-code AI agents with Dify, adding Yahoo Finance and Wikipedia tools to fetch ticker, analytics, and news, then post a summary to Slack.
Create a custom tool in AI agents by connecting an API to fetch crypto prices, define an OpenAI schema, and test, save, and deploy it to channels like Slack.
Create and index a knowledge base for ai agents using retrieval augmented generation and chunking. Import from files, notion, or websites and configure chunking and vector search for retrieval.
Learn to build and query a knowledge base in ai agents using chunked documents, vector search, and no-code chatbot workflows in Dify.
Build no-code ai agents with Dify by mastering chunking strategies and retrieval options: create per-agreement chunks, explore vector, full text search, and hybrid search, and tune top chunks and threshold.
Learn how to integrate knowledge with tools to build no-code ai agents, using knowledge retrieval, workflows, and Slack notifications to answer drone manual questions.
Publish and deploy your AI agent by adding a knowledge base and Slack webhook, then run, share, or embed the app via site or Chrome extension for production-ready access.
Demonstrates embedding a chat bot on a website using an HTML tester and iframe code, previewing in real time and testing queries via a bottom-right widget.
Publish and consume your agent via the publishing API, using the base URL and authorization header with the API key, and test streaming chat with Postman.
Learn to run AI apps in batches with Dify by uploading an Excel template to process multiple inputs, and receive batch results for company descriptions and workflows.
Explore logs and monitoring in ai agents with Dify to trace workflow runs, view input-output details, and track token usage for cost insights.
Export and import DSL files to share agents and workflows, manage workspace access with editing roles, and customize agent names and icons before publishing and running the app.
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Building AI-powered applications doesn’t have to be complicated. Dify makes it easy. No coding, no infrastructure headaches—just a straightforward way to build powerful AI applications that integrate with LLMs and automate workflows.
This course teaches you how to use Dify’s no-code platform to create AI chatbots, AI agents, AI text generators, and AI automated workflows without dealing with security, hosting, or API management. You'll learn how to structure prompts, manage knowledge bases, and connect LLMs to make your AI apps smarter.
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to build and publish fully functional AI applications (agents, chatbots, workflows, and more) while leveraging Dify’s intuitive no-code interface to create apps effortlessly.
What's Dify and Why Dify?
Dify is a no-code open-sourced platform to build AI Apps (which includes AI Agents, AI Workflows, AI Chatbots, and more). Creating AI applications used to be hard. It requires coding, infrastructure management, and deep technical expertise—but Dify removes these barriers. Instead of worrying about architecture, Dify lets you focus on building functional AI applications that get the job done without a single code.
Dify has almost 100K stars on GitHub, making it a useful and well-maintained platform, plus it's open-source!
What is this course all about and what will you learn?
This course is your step-by-step guide to mastering Dify. Whether you want to build chatbots, automation tools, AI agents, or content generators, you’ll learn how to:
Use Dify’s no-code interface to structure AI-powered apps
Integrate LLMs for smarter AI-generated responses
Manage knowledge bases to improve app accuracy
Create chatbots, AI agents, generators, and automation workflows
Integrate tools into your AI Agents to give them superpowers
Publish and monitor your AI apps with Dify’s built-in tools
This course is hands-on, practical, and focused on real-world AI solutions, making AI app development simple and accessible to everyone without programming.
Why choose this course?
Complete guide - this is the 100% start to finish, zero to hero, basic to advanced guide on Dify. There is no other course like it that teaches you everything from start to finish. It contains over 4 hours of instructional content!
Fully instructional - we not only go through important concepts, but also apply them as we are building our application so that we can solidify them. This is not only a walkthrough of the all the features and theoretical concepts, but a course that actually uses real-life examples and integrates workflows with you.
Step by step - we go through every single concept one-by-one. This improves your probabilities of learning Dify fully rather than going haphazardly through each feature.
Teacher response - if there's anything else you would like to learn, or if there's something you cannot figure out, I'm here for you! Look at the ways to reach out video.
Course Overview
Introduction - Learn what Dify is, its key components for AI agents' creation, and the overall course roadmap.
GenAI / LLM / Agents Primer - Understand Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), their limitations, and how they function within AI agents and workflows.
Environment Setup - Setup your Dify account, explore the interface, and get familiar with the development environment.
Build Your First GenAI / LLM App / Agent - Step-by-step guide to building different AI applications, including text generators, chatbots, AI agents, chatflows, and automated workflows.
Components - Models - Explore various AI models, debug multiple models, adjust parameters for optimization, and integrate AI vision capabilities.
Components - Tools - Learn how tools enhance AI agents, manage parameters effectively, integrate multiple tools, and create custom AI-powered tools.
Components - Knowledge - Develop knowledge bases, structure AI memory using chunking strategies, and refine retrieval methods for improved responses.
Components - Publishing - Understand how to publish AI applications, embed them into external platforms, utilize APIs, and monitor performance with logs and analytics.
Conclusion & Certification - Wrap up key learnings and earn certification upon completion.
If you want to learn how to improve your productivity by building AI Apps and Agents without coding using Dify, then this is the course for you. We're looking forward to having you in the course and hope you earn the certificate