Guide
A Practical Guide to Building Agents (PDF)
OpenAI · cdn.openai.com
OpenAI's own plain-English playbook on what an agent is and when you need one.
The question it answers
Read with it
- The most-cited definition of workflows vs agents, written by the team behind Claude. anthropic.com Guide Building Effective AI Agents Anthropic
- The expanded companion to Anthropic's canonical essay, packaged for non-engineers. resources.anthropic.com Guide Building Effective AI Agents (resource hub) Anthropic
- Three infra investors argue out the definition honestly, including where the hype ends. a16z.com Podcast What Is an AI Agent? a16z (Guido Appenzeller, Matt Bornstein, Yoko Li)
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Video
AI Agents, Clearly Explained
Jeff Su
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Video
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)
Y Combinator / Andrej Karpathy
- A readable companion to Karpathy's keynote if you prefer text to video. latent.space Article Software 3.0: Karpathy's talk, annotated Latent Space
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