Course: Working With AI Agents: Brief, Bound, Check

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General

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- Select activity ROBOT TRAINER · PRACTICEFluent is not the same as ...
  
  ROBOT TRAINER · PRACTICE
  Fluent is not the same as correct. Design for that and agents become useful.
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- Select activity Questions and field reports
  
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Select section What an agent actually is

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What an agent actually is
One property explains most of the surprises: it is producing plausible continuations, not looking up answers.
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The brief
Writing for something with enormous general competence, no context about you, and no memory of yesterday.
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- Select activity Check yourself: fluency and the brief
  
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Select section The bounds

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The bounds
Decide what it may touch before it touches anything. This is the decision that determines your worst possible day.
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The check
Verifying work that always sounds right, without re-doing the work yourself.
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- Select activity When to take the work back
  
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Put it to work
One task, briefed, bounded, and checked.
- Select activity Brief, bound and check one real task
  
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- Select activity Final check: bounds and verification
  
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- Select activity Where to go from here
  
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Section outline

General

What an agent actually is

The brief

The bounds

The check

Put it to work