How AI agents work: an AI that can only write, and still gets things done
Subagents: why an AI agent hands work to another agent
Some jobs need an AI agent to read dozens of web pages to find one small answer. Every page would fill the agent's memory for the task. So the agent can give the reading to a subagent, a second AI agent. What does the subagent send back?
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To find the cake, someone has to read about 30 pages: menus, opening hours, reviews. Pasted into this window, they would fill it all over again.
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Yet out of all those pages, the agent needs three lines: which shop, when it opens on Sunday, and which cake has no nuts.
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