Demystifying the AI Wave: A Backend Engineer's Guide to LLMs, RAG, and Agents

Table of Contents 🗒️ Where it all starts: LLMs Making LLMs smarter: RAG Plugging everything in: MCP The big leap: AI Agents Where does this leave us as engineers? A tale of two protocols: MCP and A2A LangChain: The Backbone of AI Engineering I've been diving deep into AI lately, trying to demystify this massive wave that's been taking the industry by storm. For a bit of background: I'm a backend software engineer and my sweet spot is Java. I absolutely love solving complex system design pr...