What an AI agent actually is

About this episode

What actually makes software an AI agent? A plain walk-through of the model, the tools it can call and the loop around them, built up step by step on a small sales-analysis agent. Then how to tell an agent from a workflow with AI inside, and how capable agents really are today.

Written by Kiran Krishna. Narrated with an AI voice. · LinkedIn

In this episode

1. 0:01Thousands of companies claim to sell AI agents.
2. 0:51Here's the plan.
3. 1:03Start with the model on its own.
4. 1:41What makes it one is a loop.
5. 3:24So why bother with a loop?
6. 5:40So how good are agents, really?
7. 6:38So that's an agent.