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Comment by simonw

2 years ago

When you call these things “agents” what do you mean by that? Is this a system prompt combined with some defined tools, or is it a different definition?

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tinco  2 years ago

An agent in this context is software that does LLM prompt results to determine its next action, often looping to iteratively get to a good result.

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