22nd May 2025
I was going slightly spare at the fact that every talk at this Anthropic developer conference has used the word "agents" dozens of times, but nobody ever stopped to provide a useful definition.
I'm now in the "Prompting for Agents" workshop and Anthropic's Hannah Moran finally broke the trend by saying that at Anthropic:
Agents are models using tools in a loop
I can live with that! I'm glad someone finally said it out loud.
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