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Building Effective "Agents"

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598 points jascha_eng | 2 comments | 20 Dec 24 12:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.761s | source
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simonw ◴[20 Dec 24 22:25 UTC] No.42475700[source]▶
This is by far the most practical piece of writing I've seen on the subject of "agents" - it includes actionable definitions, then splits most of the value out into "workflows" and describes those in depth with example applications.

There's also a cookbook with useful code examples: https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-cookbook/tree/main/p...

Blogged about this here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/20/building-effective-age...

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1. 3abiton ◴[20 Dec 24 22:51 UTC] No.42475903[source]▶
I'm glad they are publishing their cookbooks recipes on github too. Openai used to be more active there.
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2. refulgentis ◴[21 Dec 24 00:21 UTC] No.42476459[source]▶
Eh, let's nip this in the bud: we could end up in a "it feels like...", coupled to free association, cycle. :)

More substantively, we can check our vibe. OpenAI is just as active as it ever was w/notebooks. To an almost absurd degree. 5-10 commits a week. https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/activity