AI Agents: Autonomous Assistants That Think, Plan, and Act

TL;DR;

AI agents are autonomous assistants that think, plan, and act, going beyond simple instruction-following chatbots. They understand goals, plan steps, and act without micromanagement, tracking state and using decision-making loops to figure out what to do next. They can generate code, fix issues, troubleshoot bugs, and suggest changes, reasoning and adapting based on what they see. Real-world examples include GitHub Copilot, AutoGPT, and custom support bots. You can start building your own agent by creating a script that gets a question, checks conditions, and uses GPT to respond, adding memory of past actions to enhance it.