AI agents, EXPLAINED..

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]AI agent this, AI agent that.

[00:00:02]Ooh, I'm just going to disruptively innovate using generative AI. Shut the What is this? So, let's open up Claude.

[00:00:10]Claude is an LLM. It knows all of the words ever, and when you ask it a question, or like, "What's the meaning of life?" It uses all those many words it knows to decide what word it's going to say next. But, here's the problem.

[00:00:22]This chat interface is reactive. If you ask something, it answers. When you stop, it stops. It actually has no idea who you are, what your calendar looks like, or what you even care about. Its entire life is just predicting the next word to come out of its mouth. Cool. So, what if it could do, you know, more? I'm glad you asked. So, now we go into an agent like Claude co-worker. And you're like, "Yo, plan me a surfing trip to Greece for under $3,000." You walk away, and the agent does everything you might.

[00:00:53]It checks the weather, and flights, and calendar, and flights, and surfing. Oh, you're back. It just sent the confirmation. So,