Too Much Noise Surrounding the Concept of AI Agents

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Recently, I subscribed to Sidegent by Farhan Helmy to learn about AI agents. I’ve been following Farhan for a few years now – he frequently posts about building AI agents and I was excited to know he’s creating Sidegent as a platform for people to learn AI hands-on.

At the time of writing this, I have finished 16 lessons across these 3 “labs” on Sidegent in a single day:

  1. Your First Agent Lab
  2. AI Agent Fundamentals
  3. Ship your basic AI agent

What is an AI agent, really? The interaction between the model, the system prompt and the context layer. That’s it!