Glossary
AI agent
An AI system that can take actions on its own to reach a goal - not just answer a question, but read, decide, and do multiple steps.
An AI agent is the difference between an assistant that talks and one that acts. A chat assistant returns text for you to use. An agent takes a goal, breaks it into steps, and carries them out - reading files, running commands, making decisions along the way, and reporting back. It runs a loop rather than answering once.
Why it matters for business
Agents are what let a non-technical person hand off a whole task instead of doing it step by step. An AI coding agent can build a working tool from a plain-English description; an automation with AI steps can process work end to end. The shift from answering to acting is what turns AI from a helper into leverage.
In practice
The club teaches how to direct an agent well - describing outcomes clearly, reviewing what it does, and keeping a human check where it counts.Keep reading
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