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10 practical steps to get agents right
Plus: The European Commission bans AI agents from meetings, the most popular agents’ prompts and tools, and more
Michael Cunningham
April 24, 2025
Welcome back to Building AI Agents, your biweekly guide to everything new in the field of agentic AI!
the goalposts for “agent” have officially been moved
if you showed anyone in 2023 a model using python execution, image manipulation, & web browsing in its CoT like o3, they would’ve called it an agent
but now it’s just a friendly LLM in your pocket :)
— Rohan Pandey (@khoomeik)
5:47 PM • Apr 16, 2025
Death, taxes, and nobody knowing what an “AI agent” is.
In today’s issue…
OpenAI to buy coding agent for $3 billion
European Commission bans agents from meetings
A free webinar on agentic AI from Stanford
Launch & monetize your GPT wrapper in 60 seconds
The most popular agents’ prompts and tools
10 practical steps to get agents right
…and more
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