Agents - Giving Chatbots Hands
What’s an Agent? It’s the chatbot you know only it can do things not just write text, Today was agent heavy. I got a LOT done, easily more than I can do myself. I’m not saying “stuff I don’t know how to do”. I’m saying that I have AI employees that I can delegate work to.
Was on an important Teams call but couldn’t use the recording feature because more than one organization had members of the call. So I resorted to using screen recording software, but I wanted those AI notes that Teams now takes. AI is great in that role.
Remember that time I built a process for taking Lunduke’s videos and creating articles out of them? I dug up that project but couldn’t remember how I did anything. I pointed Codex at that project dir, and gave it the hour long mp4 video recording file and said “create a transcript and then an executive summary”.
Well, I hadn’t done the project on my work laptop so it didn’t have everything installed. Codex without a hitch, determined what was needed, installed everything, ran the speech to text transcriber than created an excellent executive summary. I’ve taken notes from meetings forever. The AI does better than I do.
I had some data work that needed to get done. There was work that needed to happen to setup the key/value pair etc so that Codex could do things via API. I logged into the database via chrome, so I’m already authenticated, then had codex write and execute the admin scripts to set up all the rights for Codex to then do the rest of the work via api.
It was a dev environment. And Snowfkake can undo even a “drop database” so I wasn’t worried.
It proceeded to do a lot of the work I needed to get done. Some of the work was of a type new to me. I can’t be dependent on an AI to do my core work in such a way that I don’t know how to do the work. So after everything was working, I had Codex write up a “How to” for my own skill development.
I was able to go to a reporting system the same way in Chrome. I was logged into and told Codex to setup the database connection, and then create a chart. Then create an How To document for the client to take it from there.
It’s just that in this case, getting something done was the priority.
Using an AI to do things has its place. Worked very well for me today.
