Making my Own Agent, Part 1: The what and why
I've been building my own agent harness for a few months and figured it was time to write about it. I don't have all the answers, but I learned a lot from other people's process posts and wanted to add to that pile. This is part one. The foundation: You've probably heard the word agentic before, maybe a bit too much since it's sold as a marketing term. Agentic workflows, agentic coding, agentic hotel booking, agentic breathing. With as much hype as it's getting you would expect it to cure cancer and maybe one day it will but as of right now it's not creating any cures for cancer. So what separates agents and a chat application like ChatGPT? Well if you ask someone that today, the line is getting thinner and thinner. But a chat application is exactly what it sounds like where you chat back and forth with the LLM. With an agent you give it hands and fingers stretching out into the world to gather information and take actions. This can be any...