Agents are the most oversold category in AI and also the one where the successful implementations are most interesting. Both facts are visible in this category.
The threads that hold up are the specific ones. A member describing an agent handling one narrow task with a clear input, a measurable output and a human approval point is more useful than any capability demo. The pattern that keeps recurring is that narrow and reliable beats broad and impressive.
Discussion covers agent platforms and their differences, tool use and protocol layers, memory and state across long-running tasks, multi-step reliability and where it degrades, cost at production volume, and the failure modes that only appear after a week of running unattended.
Automation without an agent framework fits here too. Sometimes a scheduled script is the right answer and members will say so. See Development for build details and AI in Business for the adoption case.
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The most-engaged agents & automation discussions in the WhatAI community.
Concrete example because I think abstract descriptions of AI agents do not tell you what actually happens. I was trying to compile a competitive landscape overview across five companies in a specific...
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I run a small consulting practice and my inbox is one of the main things that eats my day. I wanted an AI agent that could read incoming emails, categorize them, draft responses for the routine ones a...
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The OpenClaw 2026.4.5 update https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k31N-DOHRuQ covers the built-in media generation additions and the Memory Wall experiment in the April 2026 major release. The video_genera...
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The Manus AI new features video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL0g0AreXMk covers My Computer for desktop integration and Meeting Minutes as two additions that change the scope of what Manus can work...
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I have been experimenting with AI agent platforms for about six months. Most of them handle simple task automation reasonably well and fall apart the moment you ask them to do something that requires ...
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The latest agents & automation conversations from the community.
[Find the original video on Nick Puru's channel](https://www.youtube.com/@NicholasPuru/videos). **What MCP changed** MCP introduced a standard way for AI applications to connect with external tool...
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[Watch the original video on Liam Ottley's channel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYQtRqW1xX4). Liam Ottley's agent course demonstrates several business use cases and explains how beginners can pac...
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[Watch the original video on Mikey No Code's YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvrvAj6mNdY). **What makes a beginner agent credible?** The best first use case is not the most autonomo...
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[Watch the original video on Greg Isenberg's YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p_BBdfvzgQ). **What is loop engineering?** Prompt engineering focuses on improving the instruction give...
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The Manus AI capabilities video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goZwdAC7uo0 covers autonomous asynchronous execution, deep web research and full-stack website building from a single prompt. The asynch...
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