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AI agents accomplish a task in a mostly unstructured manner – where they are able to reason and conduct actions to achieve a goal. The key is in providing just enough structure through tool design, harness design, and context engineering to guide the agent effectively. I got interested in agents around September 2023 and started by prototyping with gpt-3.5 and gpt-4. We’ve come a long way since then, but the fundamentals remain the same. Approaching building these from first principles – similar to how software engineering often needs to be approached – is the best way to build agents which work well. Last year, around January 2024, I started my own company called Extensible AI where we worked on agent reliability, frameworks, and applications. It was probably a bit too early to work on agent reliability but it taught me a lot about what worked and didn’t work when it came to building agents. Don’t be fooled, building agents well is still rooted in the same principles of software engin

AI agents accomplish a task in a mostly unstructured manner – where they are able to reason and conduct actions to achieve a goal. The key is in providing just enough structure through tool design, harness design, and context engineering to guide the agent effectively. I got interested in agents around September 2023 and started by prototyping with gpt-3.5 and gpt-4. We’ve come a long way since then, but the fundamentals remain the same. Approaching building these from first principles – similar to how software engineering often needs to be approached – is the best way to build agents which wo

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