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Most “AI agents” are workflows with an LLM inside.

The real difference: who controls the flow?

In my new video, I break down the five parts of a real agent—prompt, tools, state, memory and loop—plus the production essentials: tracing, guardrails and evals. Here's the link:


https://youtu.be/SmSv_6bI5QM
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