8. Ai Agents: How To Build Ai Agents And Avoid Ai Pitfalls

You already know, I told Dr. Natalie, an agent reminds me of a mini me.

It's like a smaller version of me that goes and does the things that I could actually do, but I don't have time to do.

Right.

Yeah.

And like if you have an agent and you say, hey, go clean up my calendar for me.

Make sure my calendar is like clean.

It might it might actually clean your whole calendar off.

It might wipe your whole calendar.

You're like, no, I just meant like clear my day or clear my week.

But we have to be very specific when we're talking to our agents and we're giving them tasks to complete.

So I asked Dr. Natalie, where can this agent thing go wrong? And here is what she said.

Yeah, I love the analogy that you had of like the little mini me, right? Because I have a little mini me.

I have a little three-year-old who is, you know, I let her do her thing, but I watch her very closely.

Like I said, I'm a bit of a control freak, so I got to make sure, you know, everything...

It goes right.

I'm living in it.

Great, great analogy.

But yeah, you know, sometimes I'll let her do the things and things go terribly wrong.

So if you and I don't want to do like any fear mongering, but I think it's important people understand, you know, what could be the pitfalls so that you can't.

That's where you can prepare and say, this is where I need the human intervention before I just let this agent run loose and, you know, just have at it.

So you brought up a great example about like with the calendar, right? It could potentially, right? If you...

The thing is, it needs very clear step-by-step instructions.

If something is vague, again, it doesn't understand the human nuances, the human language, like the part, like the emotional parts, right? Or the different nuances in our language.

If something is unclear or if it's too vague, vice versa, right? It can take, or if it's some things can take things.

too literally.

You already know, I told Dr. Natalie, an agent reminds me of a mini me.

It's like a smaller version of me that goes and does the things that I could actually do, but I don't have time to do.

Right.

Yeah.

And like if you have an agent and you say, hey, go clean up my calendar for me.

Make sure my calendar is like clean.

It might it might actually clean your whole calendar off.

It might wipe your whole calendar.

You're like, no, I just meant like clear my day or clear my week.

But we have to be very specific when we're talking to our agents and we're giving them tasks to complete.

So I asked Dr. Natalie, where can this agent thing go wrong? And here is what she said.

Yeah, I love the analogy that you had of like the little mini me, right? Because I have a little mini me.

I have a little three-year-old who is, you know, I let her do her thing, but I watch her very closely.

Like I said, I'm a bit of a control freak, so I got to make sure, you know, everything...

It goes right.

I'm living in it.

Great, great analogy.

But yeah, you know, sometimes I'll let her do the things and things go terribly wrong.

So if you and I don't want to do like any fear mongering, but I think it's important people understand, you know, what could be the pitfalls so that you can't.

That's where you can prepare and say, this is where I need the human intervention before I just let this agent run loose and, you know, just have at it.

So you brought up a great example about like with the calendar, right? It could potentially, right? If you...

The thing is, it needs very clear step-by-step instructions.

If something is vague, again, it doesn't understand the human nuances, the human language, like the part, like the emotional parts, right? Or the different nuances in our language.

If something is unclear or if it's too vague, vice versa, right? It can take, or if it's some things can take things.

too literally.