Agents

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Mark Zuckerberg told investors on Meta’s Q2 earnings call that he thinks it’s “extremely unlikely” that in five years, billions of people won’t have a personal AI agent working on their behalf 24/7. Finance, health, relationships, household management — the whole thing. Most people heard a tech CEO making grand predictions. I heard a starting gun. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I spent two weeks wondering why the same AI model gave me wildly different results depending on which app I used. Same question, same model — one tool nailed it, the other hallucinated garbage. The difference wasn’t the model. It was the harness. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Everyone’s talking about AI agents right now. But if you’ve tried to figure out what they actually are, you’ve probably hit a wall of jargon — “function calling,” “orchestration,” “agentic loops” — that makes your eyes glaze over. I was in the same boat until I stopped reading tech blogs and just started using them. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Last week I asked my AI assistant to check my calendar, find a gap, and schedule a meeting. It did it. No copy-pasting. No switching tabs. Just… did it. That’s tool calling. And if you’re using AI without it, you’re using 10% of what these models can actually do. ...