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Building Effective "Agents"

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simonw ◴[] 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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th0ma5 ◴[] No.42477016[source]
How do you protect from compounding errors?
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1. tlarkworthy ◴[] No.42478587[source]
read the article, close the feedback loop with something verifiable (e.g. tests)
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2. th0ma5 ◴[] No.42481301[source]
And who tests the tests, etc