Agent-Shaped Work: When to Use AI Agents (and When Not To)
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This episode discusses when to use AI agents and how to identify tasks suitable for them.
Most people bought AI agents and never figured out what to point them at. This is the one-minute test that tells you whether a task belongs in a chat, a single agent, a team of agents, or nowhere near AI. My Links 馃敆 馃憠馃徎 Newsletter: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/ 馃憠馃徎 X: https://x.com/natebjones 馃憠馃徎 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nate.b.jones 馃憠馃徎 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nate.b.jones What's really happening inside the AI agent economy? The common story is that you need more agents. The real question is which tasks are worth any agents at all. In this video, I share the inside scoop on how to spot agent-shaped work: - Why buying more thinking now beats hiring or waiting - How four estimates sort any task in about a minute - What a 40-tool audit surfaced and what it cost to run - Where human judgment still beats every frontier model The agents already work. The scarce skill now is knowing which tasks to hand them and which to keep for yourself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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