Podcast

What Is an AI Agent?

a16z (Guido Appenzeller, Matt Bornstein, Yoko Li) · a16z.com

Three infra investors argue out the definition honestly, including where the hype ends.

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The question it answers

  1. What actually is an AI agent, in plain language?

Read with it

  1. The most-cited definition of workflows vs agents, written by the team behind Claude. anthropic.com Guide Building Effective AI Agents Anthropic
  2. The expanded companion to Anthropic's canonical essay, packaged for non-engineers. resources.anthropic.com Guide Building Effective AI Agents (resource hub) Anthropic
  3. OpenAI's own plain-English playbook on what an agent is and when you need one. cdn.openai.com Guide A Practical Guide to Building Agents (PDF) OpenAI
  4. Video AI Agents, Clearly Explained Jeff Su
  5. Video Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) Y Combinator / Andrej Karpathy
  6. 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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