What does an AI Agent need to function?
For an AI Agent to function, you need to program its structure.
But hold on, there are ways to use it without understanding programming!
In fact, more and more structures are coming out that allow this.
I myself am working on a structure where you’ll be able to work with AI Agents without knowing how to program.
And at the end of this chapter, I’ll show you an easy and quick way to use AI Agents, so you can already start dipping your toe in the water, in minutes, without understanding programming.
But anyway, what does an agent need to function?
Think of the AI Agent as an employee of your company, or a work colleague, or someone in the department you lead.
What does an employee need to function?
They need a brain, right?
They also need energy nutrition, calories they eat, which make their brain think.
Energy that is megawatt-hour.
(1 Calorie is just a way of writing 0.000000001163 of megawatt-hour)
And they also need objectives, incentives, and several other aspects that we’ll detail and compare with human aspects there in Chapter 3.
These aspects are the configurations of AI Agents.
And here, we won’t get into technical parts.
But from a management perspective, you need to understand that the agent needs to be built.
And understand that “built” not as a programming construction.
That part exists, but it’s simplified, and you don’t need to master it.
What you, as a manager, will need to master is the non-programming construction of the agent, the linguistic programming of the agent.
Which is the same “programming” you do with a human employee.
This programming is not computer programming, it’s a verbal construction.
It’s you giving feedback, making a choice about which employee it is, a selection.
We’ll see this in more detail when we’re building an agent, in the next chapter about the Department of Artificial Resources.
But for now, just understand that there are configurations that are not directly in the programming.
And that you will program your agent by talking to it, just like you guide a new employee in a department.