# Understanding AI (Manning)

**URL:** <https://forum.devtalk.com/t/understanding-ai-manning/250082>\
**Category:** AI Learning Resources\
**Tags:** responsible-ai, published-book, generative-ai, llm, manning, prompt-engineering, ai-agents, artificial-intelliegence, ethical-ai\
**Created:** [25 September 2026 13:21 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/understanding-ai-manning/250082 "2026-09-25T13:21:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [29 September 2026 02:01 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/understanding-ai-manning/250082/2 "2026-09-29T02:01:05Z")

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A beginner-friendly foundation is especially useful now that “AI” often jumps straight to agent demos. I’d be curious whether the finished book separates model capability from system behavior: tool access, retrieval, evaluation, and the quality of the context around a model can matter as much as the model label. That distinction helps readers build realistic expectations instead of treating every failure as an intelligence problem.

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