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AI Agents are not Set it and Forget it.
AI agents and scheduled automations are not set it and forget it. The requirements you start with are an educated guess, and you often discover what you need only after the agent does something you don’t need. In this episode of The Missing Manual, Julia Levy and Jenny Cotie Kangas explain how to tune an agent once it is running, and why telling the AI where it falls short is the step most people skip.
Jenny starts with a question from a recent workshop. An attendee built a Gmail agent to triage her inbox, and the agent kept stopping to ask for permission. The fix was in the architecture. An…
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