The Two Most Useful Applications of AI Agents

Key Takeaways

I think there's like this intersection that's a sweet spot for using agent and that's like a set of tasks that's valuable and complex but also like maybe the cost of error or cost of monitoring error is relatively low I think like coding and search are like two pretty canonical examples where like agents are very useful uh like take search as example it's very hard to do like deep iterative search but you can always trade off some like Precision for recall and then just get a little bit more documents or a little bit more information than than it's needed and filter it down coding agents I think are super exciting because they're verifiable at least partially um you know code has this great property that you can write tests for it and then you edit the code and either the tests pass or they don't pass uh now that assumes that you have good unit tests which I think you know every engineer in the world can say like we don't yeah um but at least it's better than than a lot of things you know there's no equivalent way to do that for many other fields